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Speaker 1: And having coaches articulated and prepare their teams in that

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Speaker 1: way will tell you how important they think it is. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Uh so, good discussion there. We went off on a

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Speaker 1: topic we didn't even tend to travel down, but I'm

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Speaker 1: glad we did because you know, we're always trying to

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Speaker 1: get your on field perspective, Steven. That's always valuable here,

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Speaker 1: so I'm never gonna shy away from tapping into it.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, in case you're just joining us, the report,

436
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Speaker 1: which is coming directly from Isaiah Mackenzie's agent, is that

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Speaker 1: he is returning to Buffalo for twenty twenty one, and

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Speaker 1: Isaiah has since basically intimated on his Twitter account that

439
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Speaker 1: he is coming back for the twenty twenty one season

440
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Speaker 1: as well, basically saying Bill's Mafia, Let's do it. So

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Speaker 1: there it is. We'll wait for official confirmation from the team,

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Speaker 1: but yeah, that's where that's at as far as breaking

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Speaker 1: news right now, So we'll try to keep our ear

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Speaker 1: to the ground and await official confirmation from the club.

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Speaker 1: In the meantime, though, we do want to discuss with

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Speaker 1: you an issue that Peter King brought up in his

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Speaker 1: Football Morning in America column, And by the way, Peter

448
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Speaker 1: will be on the show with us in the third

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Speaker 1: hour of the program today, so we'll be talking to

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Speaker 1: him about this as well and ask him to kind

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Speaker 1: of elaborate on it. But he basically broke the news

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Speaker 1: in his column that the league's owners when they meet

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Speaker 1: next week early next week Monday and Tuesday, I believe

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Speaker 1: virtually that they will be discussing the possibility of the

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Speaker 1: in booth replay officials who are on site already anyway

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Speaker 1: every week basically overseeing the administration of the officiating through

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Speaker 1: the course of the game. They may take on sky

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Speaker 1: judge type authority and overrule calls on the field that

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Speaker 1: are egregiously wrong. Not everything, probably not, at least from

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Speaker 1: the way Peter's reporting it, things that are away from

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Speaker 1: the play that may have happened, because you could do

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Speaker 1: that on almost every play, buzz down every single play

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Speaker 1: if you did that. But there is talk that the

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Speaker 1: league is leaning in favor of employing a sky judge

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Speaker 1: to oversee the officiating on the field and correct any

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Speaker 1: egregiously wrong call. So our Twitter poll today is asking you,

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Speaker 1: point blank, does the NFL need a sky judge to

468
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Speaker 1: overrule calls on the field. You can go to one

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Speaker 1: Bill's Live on Twitter and the choices are there for

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Speaker 1: you to pick from. Yes, still too many miscalls? Be

471
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Speaker 1: not sure? Do we want another layer of officiating delays

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Speaker 1: or see No, too complicated to figure out. And I

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Speaker 1: will say there are a lot of layers of officiating

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Speaker 1: already with the replay review process. We know that coaches

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Speaker 1: challenges and all that stuff that goes into it, and

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Speaker 1: what you can and cannot challenge. It's a little it's

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Speaker 1: a little dicey even now when you start talking about

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Speaker 1: can you challenge something? Remember in the beginning, it was

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Speaker 1: like impossible to figure you know, you'd get you should

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Speaker 1: challenge that. And there's certainly and they try to keep

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Speaker 1: delays to ninety seconds, right, that's the only review time

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Speaker 1: that the guys can go under the hoods. It's a

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Speaker 1: ninety second clock that he goes on when he goes

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Speaker 1: to review a play that's been challenged or is subject

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Speaker 1: to review. I think what I well, I know, this

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Speaker 1: is what I think about this sky. I think they'll

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Speaker 1: probably put a sky judge in every stadium. I don't

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Speaker 1: think this is the last we'll hear about it. They'll

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Speaker 1: tweak it a little bit, say yeah, we should have

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Speaker 1: done this, should have than that, they'll it'll change again.

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Speaker 1: Next year, they'll make it better, and it'll change again

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Speaker 1: the year after that, they'll make it hopefully even better,

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Speaker 1: or perhaps fix some problems. But getting it started is

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Speaker 1: I'm okay with this last year in the in the NFL,

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Speaker 1: and I think I don't know if any of us

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Speaker 1: recognized it or not. It was a vastly different year

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Speaker 1: of officiating than we've seen in a while. It was

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Speaker 1: very subtle the differences they weren't calling. They didn't call

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Speaker 1: as many penalties. They spotted the ball mostly on the

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Speaker 1: yard line. They eyebolted on the yard line because they

501
00:28:34,359 --> 00:28:36,280
Speaker 1: didn't want to have the ball tossed back and forth.

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Speaker 1: They don't and they didn't want the change to be

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Speaker 1: coming in a hand. It was all COVID related. They

504
00:28:40,920 --> 00:28:44,800
Speaker 1: all had masks on. They just they ran that. They

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Speaker 1: kind of streamlined the entire game, and I don't think

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Speaker 1: too many people were complaining about it. I think that

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Speaker 1: taught the league a little something about where they were headed.

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Speaker 1: And I think if they can streamline it further with

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Speaker 1: a sky judge, meaning get a little bit more precise

510
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Speaker 1: ice in the officiating, but make it fast and keep

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Speaker 1: it moving and so that the coaches don't have to

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Speaker 1: wait for a review or whatever. The sky judge has

513
00:29:09,520 --> 00:29:11,280
Speaker 1: got all the angles. He says, no, no, no no, no, no no,

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Speaker 1: that was incomplete. Go back, They go go back. I

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Speaker 1: don't know how to work. We don't know yet. We

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Speaker 1: haven't seen it. We haven't and I'm sure that we'll

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Speaker 1: get a load of it in the preseason. But I

518
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Speaker 1: think this is I don't think it's any question. They're

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Speaker 1: going to do it, and how it looks is going

520
00:29:28,080 --> 00:29:30,040
Speaker 1: to be really interesting for all of us to find out.

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Speaker 1: But I think it will help eventually, if not this year.

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Speaker 1: Peter King was reporting that many coaches seem to be

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Speaker 1: in favor of a sky judge from those that he's

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Speaker 1: spoken with, and want one on every officiating crew. The

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Speaker 1: question is how far ranging is the authority. I would

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Speaker 1: think they would like to keep it in a relatively

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Speaker 1: narrow scope to avoid the delays and bogging the game

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Speaker 1: down with extra layers of officiating. I think where it

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Speaker 1: really comes in Handy Steve is when you get into

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Speaker 1: those latter stages of the game and maybe a coach

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Speaker 1: is out of challenges and there is a there's a

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Speaker 1: really bad call that's been made you know, they just

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Speaker 1: miss it, which can happen, you know, they just flat

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Speaker 1: out miss it. I mean, the refs are human, and

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Speaker 1: they flat out miss a call in a tight game,

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Speaker 1: and the crowds in a in a froth and an

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Speaker 1: uproar over it. That's where I really think the sky

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Speaker 1: judge can come in handy. He can just buzz down

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00:30:28,440 --> 00:30:30,800
Speaker 1: and be like, hey man, that ball bounced before that

540
00:30:30,880 --> 00:30:33,280
Speaker 1: receiver call. He totally trapped that thing. It's not a catch.

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Speaker 1: And I'll say I'll say this. This is what Peter

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Speaker 1: King wrote in his article and I'm quoting it says,

543
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Speaker 1: the upstairs official has a direct line of communication with

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Speaker 1: the referee on the field, and it's expected the replay

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Speaker 1: official will be empowered to buzz down to the ref

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Speaker 1: and tell the crew chief of an obviously wrong or

547
00:30:49,400 --> 00:30:52,440
Speaker 1: missed call if the new rule has passed. The replay

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Speaker 1: official also could tell the ref for example, that a

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Speaker 1: reception rule to catch in real time was obviously trapped

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Speaker 1: or missed, so they wouldn't have to wait watch on

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Speaker 1: the on the big screen on the in the television,

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00:31:04,560 --> 00:31:07,640
Speaker 1: you know, and all that. You know, the head coach

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00:31:07,680 --> 00:31:10,680
Speaker 1: reaches down his sock pulls out the red red flag

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Speaker 1: and looks and watches and then throws it. You can always,

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Speaker 1: you know, So I would think coaches challenges would become

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Speaker 1: almost non a non issue. Wonder if they pull that

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00:31:22,560 --> 00:31:25,000
Speaker 1: away from the coaches, because if you have the sky

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00:31:25,120 --> 00:31:28,920
Speaker 1: judge there, logic would say he's gonna catch all those

559
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Speaker 1: things that coaches are worried about. The ref's missing, right right,

560
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Speaker 1: So I would think that would take something off of

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Speaker 1: the coach's plate. Presumably. I don't know how that's gonna work,

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Speaker 1: And that's a question we're gonna ask Peter because maybe

563
00:31:40,640 --> 00:31:42,680
Speaker 1: he has some insight on it when he's joining us

564
00:31:42,760 --> 00:31:45,200
Speaker 1: on the show and the third coach. Coaches are really

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00:31:45,480 --> 00:31:47,960
Speaker 1: reticent to give that up. Well they are control. I

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00:31:47,960 --> 00:31:49,760
Speaker 1: think they might say, like, back it up, just get

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Speaker 1: one a half, you know what I mean, just because

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Speaker 1: you don't need to and if you get the one

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00:31:54,480 --> 00:31:57,120
Speaker 1: right with that, with the sky judge even up there,

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00:31:57,520 --> 00:32:01,280
Speaker 1: you should get it back. Yeah. But yeah, I'm still

571
00:32:01,280 --> 00:32:05,040
Speaker 1: there's the timing element too, because I'm thinking of this

572
00:32:05,080 --> 00:32:07,880
Speaker 1: scenario and well, I know we got to get to break,

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00:32:08,080 --> 00:32:11,840
Speaker 1: but the coach throws the challenge flag just as the

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Speaker 1: sky judge is buzzing the ref. Now what happens. Do

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00:32:14,520 --> 00:32:16,840
Speaker 1: we accept the challenge? Do we go with the sky

576
00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:20,120
Speaker 1: judge who overrules whom I would assume the sky judge

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00:32:20,120 --> 00:32:23,600
Speaker 1: overrules and the coach gets his flag back to tuck

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00:32:23,600 --> 00:32:25,960
Speaker 1: in his pocket or whatever, assuming we don't know, Well, yeah,

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Speaker 1: we don't know, but I'd like to know the inner

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Speaker 1: workings of that. It makes sense, and I would think

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Speaker 1: that I would like to think that the NFL would, yeah,

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Speaker 1: make some sense. So you will see, yeah, but we

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Speaker 1: want you to make sense of this at eight oh

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Speaker 1: three h five fifty open line for you there one

585
00:32:39,760 --> 00:32:42,240
Speaker 1: eight eight five fifty two five fifty or on the

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Speaker 1: tweet sheet. Does the NFL need a sky judge to

587
00:32:45,160 --> 00:32:47,720
Speaker 1: overrule calls on the field. It looks like that is

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00:32:47,720 --> 00:32:49,560
Speaker 1: something that will be presented to the owners at the

589
00:32:49,560 --> 00:32:54,000
Speaker 1: meetings next week, and there is strong belief that there

590
00:32:54,040 --> 00:32:57,239
Speaker 1: is enough support for it to pass. The choices are

591
00:32:57,240 --> 00:33:00,280
Speaker 1: there for you at one bills Live on Twitter. So

592
00:33:00,360 --> 00:33:02,760
Speaker 1: give us your answers there and give us a call

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Speaker 1: at eight oh three five fifty back in a moment

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Speaker 1: here on one Bills Live, presented by Kalida Health, It's

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills Radio. Get back to one Bills Live, Chris Brown,

596
00:33:21,120 --> 00:33:25,880
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker with you, and we are talking sky judge

597
00:33:25,920 --> 00:33:30,440
Speaker 1: in the NFL. It looks like the league, their owners anyway,

598
00:33:30,480 --> 00:33:33,720
Speaker 1: will be presented with a proposal from the Competition Committee

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Speaker 1: on the implementation of a sky judge. They're gonna use

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Speaker 1: basically the replay officials that are in the booth already

601
00:33:42,520 --> 00:33:45,960
Speaker 1: to also exert the authority of a sky judge to

602
00:33:46,080 --> 00:33:51,040
Speaker 1: overrule egregiously called plays on the field if it looks

603
00:33:51,040 --> 00:33:54,680
Speaker 1: like it's very, very wrong. The sky judge buzzes down

604
00:33:54,680 --> 00:33:56,800
Speaker 1: and says, hey, you guys screwed that one up, but

605
00:33:56,960 --> 00:33:59,520
Speaker 1: we kind of fix it, and this is what it is.

606
00:34:00,040 --> 00:34:03,280
Speaker 1: So it looks like it has the support of most

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00:34:03,320 --> 00:34:07,840
Speaker 1: of the NFL ownership. So it could be enacted as

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Speaker 1: early as next week and then ratified soon thereafter in

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Speaker 1: the main meetings presumably and in place for the twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty one season, which could bring a whole nother discussion

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Speaker 1: on challenge flags and whether those would go away for

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Speaker 1: coaches if you have this authoritarian position up in the

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Speaker 1: booth to kind of handle the stuff that's missed. So

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Speaker 1: that's probably step two of the whole scenario, but we're

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00:34:30,680 --> 00:34:33,160
Speaker 1: dealing with stepped one. So does the NFL need a

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00:34:33,239 --> 00:34:35,640
Speaker 1: sky judged overrule calls on the field. That's the question

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Speaker 1: for you at eight three, five fifties. It's always come

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Speaker 1: down to, you know, there's unintended consequences. When you change

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Speaker 1: the rule, you open up a strategy for the for

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00:34:43,760 --> 00:34:45,799
Speaker 1: whatever side is on the other side of the rule, right,

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Speaker 1: So what happens if they go and then there's these

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Speaker 1: the coaches challenge play happens and the team on offense

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Speaker 1: starts to quick snap, Well, the replay official may not

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00:35:02,200 --> 00:35:04,000
Speaker 1: be able to get to it. Whatever. You know, you

625
00:35:04,040 --> 00:35:05,839
Speaker 1: start to get that fat and then it forces the

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00:35:05,840 --> 00:35:09,000
Speaker 1: coach to throw the flag and they can use it

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00:35:09,040 --> 00:35:11,600
Speaker 1: as a strategy, like the Bills did in New England

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00:35:11,600 --> 00:35:14,000
Speaker 1: when Bill Belichick threw the flag right after halftime on

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Speaker 1: the Dawson Knox catch right on the Patriots sideline. Belichick

630
00:35:17,280 --> 00:35:20,560
Speaker 1: throw it the challenge flag. He loses the challenge because

631
00:35:20,600 --> 00:35:23,120
Speaker 1: the Bills are gonna snap it and go, so he

632
00:35:23,160 --> 00:35:25,480
Speaker 1: has to throw it quick loses his challenge for the

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00:35:25,520 --> 00:35:28,160
Speaker 1: second half. That was in the infamous throw the phone,

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00:35:28,840 --> 00:35:30,640
Speaker 1: Throw the phone game. You know, you can say what

635
00:35:30,680 --> 00:35:32,480
Speaker 1: you want about the play of the year, and you

636
00:35:32,520 --> 00:35:35,200
Speaker 1: know that is to throw the phone. The play of

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00:35:35,200 --> 00:35:38,279
Speaker 1: the year for you. It's closed, right, it's right there.

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00:35:38,440 --> 00:35:42,080
Speaker 1: It's it's top three conversation. It's top three. It's you've

639
00:35:42,120 --> 00:35:44,960
Speaker 1: got to mention it. You've got to mention it. That's

640
00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:48,120
Speaker 1: throwing the phone that I can watch it a thousand

641
00:35:48,200 --> 00:35:52,000
Speaker 1: that it never gets old. That never gets old that

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00:35:52,239 --> 00:35:55,879
Speaker 1: you know, think about it. So all due respect, Aaron

643
00:35:55,960 --> 00:35:57,920
Speaker 1: Johnson's pick six for one hundred and one yards the

644
00:35:57,960 --> 00:36:01,120
Speaker 1: plant that was, Yeah, that was that might have been.

645
00:36:01,200 --> 00:36:03,640
Speaker 1: That's more of a historic play that was. That's an

646
00:36:03,640 --> 00:36:06,160
Speaker 1: all timer. That is an all timer. That's up there

647
00:36:06,239 --> 00:36:12,319
Speaker 1: with with the Don bb play. It's up there with gosh,

648
00:36:12,360 --> 00:36:14,560
Speaker 1: I mean, they're they're only a handful really when you

649
00:36:14,560 --> 00:36:16,799
Speaker 1: think about what maybe the maybe the last touchdown in

650
00:36:16,840 --> 00:36:18,600
Speaker 1: the third in the comeback game, I don't know it

651
00:36:18,719 --> 00:36:21,800
Speaker 1: was another Christie's field goal and some field goal and overtime.

652
00:36:22,160 --> 00:36:24,279
Speaker 1: I don't know that I wasn't even a hard kick, right,

653
00:36:24,280 --> 00:36:26,520
Speaker 1: it was thirty eight yard maybe that I mean, because

654
00:36:26,520 --> 00:36:29,920
Speaker 1: that's that's up there. Um, the Tarren Johnson play is

655
00:36:30,400 --> 00:36:33,520
Speaker 1: maybe the Carlton Bailey interception in the championship game only

656
00:36:33,560 --> 00:36:40,000
Speaker 1: touchdown in the entire touch game, right, right, So you

657
00:36:40,080 --> 00:36:47,080
Speaker 1: know that's up there now if you're talking about best

658
00:36:47,120 --> 00:36:51,839
Speaker 1: thing off the field during a game, I mean, it's

659
00:36:51,960 --> 00:36:54,720
Speaker 1: up there with the goalpost coming down. After the Miami

660
00:36:54,920 --> 00:36:58,080
Speaker 1: drought was over in nineteen eighty, right, that was a

661
00:36:58,160 --> 00:37:03,359
Speaker 1: regular season games with fandom, we won the pandemonium. I mean,

662
00:37:03,400 --> 00:37:06,640
Speaker 1: it's up there. It's probably not that high. It's probably

663
00:37:06,640 --> 00:37:11,719
Speaker 1: not high as those two really ending those droughts. Having

664
00:37:12,120 --> 00:37:14,440
Speaker 1: I thought that, Howard and I heard I thought Howard.

665
00:37:14,760 --> 00:37:17,080
Speaker 1: I mean that guy fell and Chick is like like

666
00:37:17,120 --> 00:37:19,759
Speaker 1: in the he's in the album Mount Rushmore Coaches and

667
00:37:19,840 --> 00:37:22,319
Speaker 1: you got him. It's you know, it's delicious. The whole

668
00:37:22,360 --> 00:37:25,480
Speaker 1: thing's delicious. Pop. He goes into two, he goes into

669
00:37:25,520 --> 00:37:30,080
Speaker 1: two pieces the other phone office office hook. Oh, the

670
00:37:30,160 --> 00:37:32,759
Speaker 1: happiest people have to be the Microsoft surface people. To

671
00:37:32,800 --> 00:37:34,279
Speaker 1: be honest with you, I mean, you can't beat that

672
00:37:34,360 --> 00:37:36,759
Speaker 1: advertising right there? Are you kidding me? That was on

673
00:37:36,760 --> 00:37:39,600
Speaker 1: a Monday night game that's national exposure to We had

674
00:37:39,719 --> 00:37:42,000
Speaker 1: Kyle brand On. Bill Gates is a happy man. That

675
00:37:42,160 --> 00:37:49,880
Speaker 1: is just like chocolate pudding man. He's so that you

676
00:37:50,040 --> 00:37:52,720
Speaker 1: gotta put that in there, right. Yeah. I thought Howard

677
00:37:52,760 --> 00:37:56,160
Speaker 1: and Salad a very good conversation this morning. They were

678
00:37:56,200 --> 00:38:00,960
Speaker 1: talking about the Terren Johnson play and the Justin Zimmer play. Yeah,

679
00:38:02,400 --> 00:38:07,479
Speaker 1: they were two watershed moments for the franchise this year.

680
00:38:08,560 --> 00:38:12,959
Speaker 1: You know, the Justin zimmerplay vanquished the Demons because once again,

681
00:38:13,040 --> 00:38:14,640
Speaker 1: here we are in a close game, We're gonna blow

682
00:38:14,640 --> 00:38:18,240
Speaker 1: it at the end against this team, and it didn't happen.

683
00:38:18,560 --> 00:38:22,759
Speaker 1: It changed the course of this team, Psyche, I believe, uh,

684
00:38:22,920 --> 00:38:24,759
Speaker 1: you know. And then the Terren Johnson play is just

685
00:38:24,840 --> 00:38:27,520
Speaker 1: as you said, it's an all timer. But the Belichick

686
00:38:27,600 --> 00:38:29,719
Speaker 1: thing is juicy. It's a juicy Larmer. And you think

687
00:38:29,760 --> 00:38:33,080
Speaker 1: about it too. Both those plays, I mean, they weren't

688
00:38:33,120 --> 00:38:39,680
Speaker 1: made by Josh Allen, Steph Diggs, you know, Micah Hide,

689
00:38:39,760 --> 00:38:42,920
Speaker 1: Jordan Poor. They were made by backup defensive backup defensive

690
00:38:42,960 --> 00:38:46,080
Speaker 1: tackle and a backup safety on the recovery, right, just

691
00:38:46,440 --> 00:38:50,200
Speaker 1: you know, just made by guy. And that right there

692
00:38:50,440 --> 00:38:53,440
Speaker 1: is that's culture. You know, you got the guys all

693
00:38:53,440 --> 00:38:56,640
Speaker 1: the way at the bottom making the biggest players contributing

694
00:38:57,120 --> 00:39:03,080
Speaker 1: to everybody at the top. UM, that's what makes it special,

695
00:39:03,280 --> 00:39:06,680
Speaker 1: It really does. UM and it's you know, it does

696
00:39:06,719 --> 00:39:10,040
Speaker 1: speak to what's going on inside the building. Yeah, Justin Zimmer,

697
00:39:10,080 --> 00:39:12,920
Speaker 1: I mean he was I remember, I was like, who

698
00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:18,960
Speaker 1: what Justin Zimmer? I didn't know who it was. It

699
00:39:19,000 --> 00:39:20,759
Speaker 1: was a great puny. And it's on cam too, because

700
00:39:20,760 --> 00:39:22,759
Speaker 1: he didn't put the ball in the right hand, you know,

701
00:39:22,840 --> 00:39:25,120
Speaker 1: put it in your outside arm. Yeah, well I think

702
00:39:25,160 --> 00:39:27,319
Speaker 1: he yeah, but he was like cutting inside somebody too,

703
00:39:27,320 --> 00:39:29,400
Speaker 1: so he pulled it away and Zimmer comes from kind

704
00:39:29,440 --> 00:39:32,520
Speaker 1: of behind. I mean, I'm who knows, but he you know,

705
00:39:33,080 --> 00:39:34,640
Speaker 1: he's got it in both hands. He does put it

706
00:39:34,640 --> 00:39:37,680
Speaker 1: in the wrong arm, cuts up inside and that's it. Yeah,

707
00:39:37,719 --> 00:39:41,440
Speaker 1: And it was it punch out. And then I'll tell

708
00:39:41,480 --> 00:39:44,360
Speaker 1: you what when that happened too. When that play happened,

709
00:39:45,160 --> 00:39:48,600
Speaker 1: that game was over. It was under a minute left.

710
00:39:48,680 --> 00:39:51,040
Speaker 1: It was over. They're in the red zone here, yep.

711
00:39:51,280 --> 00:39:54,520
Speaker 1: And he was inside the fifteen yard line. It was over,

712
00:39:54,719 --> 00:39:57,880
Speaker 1: and they knelt down. Game over and uh and that

713
00:39:58,000 --> 00:40:00,000
Speaker 1: led to and I think too, you get that monkey off.

714
00:40:00,040 --> 00:40:02,160
Speaker 1: They're back. They come back late in the season and

715
00:40:02,239 --> 00:40:06,120
Speaker 1: they absolutely lumped those guys up. Oh well, because yeah,

716
00:40:06,160 --> 00:40:08,799
Speaker 1: as you said, the monkeys off the back that it

717
00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:12,080
Speaker 1: changed the psyche of this team the rest of the way.

718
00:40:12,160 --> 00:40:14,239
Speaker 1: Their head coach had never beaten that guy. We can

719
00:40:14,320 --> 00:40:16,239
Speaker 1: beat anybody. We had now we couldn't be you know,

720
00:40:16,360 --> 00:40:17,920
Speaker 1: and all that stuff. You know, you gotta come in

721
00:40:17,960 --> 00:40:19,399
Speaker 1: there and think, oh gosh, all right, now, we got

722
00:40:19,400 --> 00:40:22,200
Speaker 1: to do this answering questions from the media about the

723
00:40:22,239 --> 00:40:25,440
Speaker 1: Patriots for the last four years, right, you know, it

724
00:40:25,520 --> 00:40:29,200
Speaker 1: was done. I mean, whether whether you it's human nature,

725
00:40:29,239 --> 00:40:31,040
Speaker 1: it's going to climb into your head in some way,

726
00:40:31,080 --> 00:40:34,399
Speaker 1: shape or form. Yeah, when you keep losing to that team, right,

727
00:40:34,480 --> 00:40:37,280
Speaker 1: and I so, I'm I'm totally with them. The Tarren

728
00:40:37,360 --> 00:40:40,439
Speaker 1: Johnson play was one of the old timers, um, and

729
00:40:40,560 --> 00:40:43,200
Speaker 1: so was the punch out was certainly a season maker.

730
00:40:43,239 --> 00:40:45,080
Speaker 1: I think it got them. You know, they were halfway

731
00:40:45,080 --> 00:40:47,799
Speaker 1: through the season playing good. They'd dropped too straight though, right,

732
00:40:48,640 --> 00:40:51,200
Speaker 1: and they were getting back into it, um and then

733
00:40:51,719 --> 00:40:55,439
Speaker 1: you know, have that punch out happened. That was big. Yeah.

734
00:40:55,440 --> 00:40:57,360
Speaker 1: They won in Week seven against the Jets with a

735
00:40:57,400 --> 00:41:01,080
Speaker 1: six field goal game, then came home to play the Patriots, right,

736
00:41:01,360 --> 00:41:04,200
Speaker 1: and they had lost down twenty one. They've gotten back

737
00:41:04,200 --> 00:41:06,520
Speaker 1: in the saddle, only scored eighteen points against a bad

738
00:41:06,600 --> 00:41:09,120
Speaker 1: Jet team had to come back and play the Patriots,

739
00:41:09,120 --> 00:41:12,000
Speaker 1: and they you know, so they were still hadn't really

740
00:41:12,000 --> 00:41:15,399
Speaker 1: spread their wings and then all you know, they punch out.

741
00:41:15,560 --> 00:41:20,840
Speaker 1: But yeah, I'm yeah, play the play the season gotta

742
00:41:20,920 --> 00:41:24,200
Speaker 1: be Tarren Johnson. But that's all that's almost transcends this season.

743
00:41:24,360 --> 00:41:26,360
Speaker 1: Yeah you know, I mean really that that sends you

744
00:41:26,400 --> 00:41:30,520
Speaker 1: to the AFC Champion Conference Championship game. And man oh man, yeah,

745
00:41:31,160 --> 00:41:33,880
Speaker 1: open phone line for you. Eight oh three five fifty

746
00:41:33,960 --> 00:41:36,400
Speaker 1: one eight eight five fifty two five fifty. Does the

747
00:41:36,520 --> 00:41:39,480
Speaker 1: NFL need a sky judge to overrule the calls on

748
00:41:39,680 --> 00:41:42,359
Speaker 1: the field? Choices are there at one bills Live. We'll

749
00:41:42,360 --> 00:41:44,000
Speaker 1: take a break here, but get to your phone calls

750
00:41:44,040 --> 00:41:59,919
Speaker 1: when we return. Steve and I back in a minute. Well,

751
00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:01,879
Speaker 1: we got back to one bills Live. Chris Brown, Steve

752
00:42:01,960 --> 00:42:05,920
Speaker 1: Tasker with you. We're talking sky judge. Does the NFL

753
00:42:06,400 --> 00:42:10,160
Speaker 1: need them to overrule calls on the field? Your choices

754
00:42:10,200 --> 00:42:13,120
Speaker 1: are at one bills Live on Twitter, So way in

755
00:42:13,360 --> 00:42:18,000
Speaker 1: with your choice. Yes, still too many miscalls? Be not sure?

756
00:42:18,160 --> 00:42:21,320
Speaker 1: Do we want another layer of officiating delays or see no,

757
00:42:21,960 --> 00:42:24,600
Speaker 1: it's too complicated to figure out. Eight h three oh

758
00:42:24,640 --> 00:42:26,680
Speaker 1: five fifty the number two call open line for you

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00:42:26,800 --> 00:42:29,359
Speaker 1: there or one eight eight five fifty two five fifty.

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00:42:29,400 --> 00:42:32,120
Speaker 1: We go to the phones now and Tom in West

761
00:42:32,160 --> 00:42:34,040
Speaker 1: Seneca leads us off. Tom, what do you have for us?

762
00:42:34,040 --> 00:42:37,320
Speaker 1: You're on one Bills Live. Yes, Chris Steve, thanks for

763
00:42:37,400 --> 00:42:40,160
Speaker 1: having me. I appreciate it all. I think that with

764
00:42:40,280 --> 00:42:43,600
Speaker 1: the technology that we have now, we're seeing plays from

765
00:42:43,640 --> 00:42:48,359
Speaker 1: all different angles, and I think that's enough. If they

766
00:42:48,480 --> 00:42:53,600
Speaker 1: really believe that a sky camera of some sort can

767
00:42:54,080 --> 00:42:57,919
Speaker 1: really be definitive, then by all means, but I really

768
00:42:58,000 --> 00:43:00,920
Speaker 1: think we have enough with all that we had, the

769
00:43:01,040 --> 00:43:03,799
Speaker 1: technology that's available now, with all the angles they show

770
00:43:03,880 --> 00:43:07,160
Speaker 1: you you could pretty much get you can pretty much

771
00:43:07,239 --> 00:43:09,440
Speaker 1: decide if it was a good call and or a

772
00:43:09,520 --> 00:43:12,600
Speaker 1: bad call. Now, of course, I'm a Buffalo Bill's fan.

773
00:43:13,360 --> 00:43:15,800
Speaker 1: If a play happens to go, if a call happens

774
00:43:15,840 --> 00:43:18,880
Speaker 1: to go against the Bills, I'm subjective. I'm going to

775
00:43:19,000 --> 00:43:22,640
Speaker 1: look at the play and say, no, that's going against us,

776
00:43:22,719 --> 00:43:25,400
Speaker 1: because this is what really happened. I'm not going to

777
00:43:25,480 --> 00:43:29,080
Speaker 1: lie to myself now that all being said, if they

778
00:43:29,200 --> 00:43:32,160
Speaker 1: really think that will help, by all means, but I

779
00:43:32,280 --> 00:43:36,200
Speaker 1: think that even with the technology they have, they make

780
00:43:36,440 --> 00:43:39,640
Speaker 1: errors because you look at something being subjective. Now, of

781
00:43:39,760 --> 00:43:42,719
Speaker 1: course you look at it and say, hey, that that

782
00:43:43,200 --> 00:43:46,160
Speaker 1: didn't happen, that that was a bad call. But I'd

783
00:43:46,239 --> 00:43:48,600
Speaker 1: like to add something to this because there's something that's

784
00:43:48,920 --> 00:43:53,000
Speaker 1: been bothering me for years. There was a coach for years,

785
00:43:54,760 --> 00:43:58,759
Speaker 1: Pete Carroll from Seattle. It's coaching to one on one.

786
00:43:58,800 --> 00:44:01,160
Speaker 1: It's called he didn't want to come to Buffalo when

787
00:44:01,200 --> 00:44:04,799
Speaker 1: he was available. Absolutely and equivocally he did not want

788
00:44:04,840 --> 00:44:07,120
Speaker 1: to come to Buffalo. He made one of the worst

789
00:44:07,600 --> 00:44:10,640
Speaker 1: coaching blummers that I've ever seen in the biggest game

790
00:44:10,719 --> 00:44:13,880
Speaker 1: of the year when they played the Patriots. Uh, you

791
00:44:14,000 --> 00:44:17,319
Speaker 1: have a human tank in the backfield and Marshawn Lynch

792
00:44:18,080 --> 00:44:21,320
Speaker 1: and he chooses at second and goal from the free ironline.

793
00:44:21,320 --> 00:44:24,000
Speaker 1: I guess it was to pass the ball to put

794
00:44:24,080 --> 00:44:25,880
Speaker 1: the ball in the air, and we all know what

795
00:44:26,000 --> 00:44:29,680
Speaker 1: happened there. That was a pathetic call. And I like

796
00:44:29,840 --> 00:44:33,080
Speaker 1: to criticize because he didn't want to come to Buffalo

797
00:44:33,320 --> 00:44:36,120
Speaker 1: and he's put on a pedestal being one of the

798
00:44:36,640 --> 00:44:41,080
Speaker 1: greatest coaches of all time, and that was a huge

799
00:44:41,239 --> 00:44:44,120
Speaker 1: coaching coaching blugger had to get that in there. Thank

800
00:44:44,160 --> 00:44:47,279
Speaker 1: you guys have a great day the call, I think,

801
00:44:47,800 --> 00:44:49,600
Speaker 1: I don't I don't know. I had a hard time

802
00:44:49,640 --> 00:44:51,800
Speaker 1: discerning what Tom was saying at the beginning, because he

803
00:44:51,880 --> 00:44:55,000
Speaker 1: said they have every angle they want, and it sounded like,

804
00:44:55,160 --> 00:44:57,040
Speaker 1: for a minute he thought that it was a camera.

805
00:44:57,200 --> 00:44:59,640
Speaker 1: That was different. It's not a camera. Here's a guy.

806
00:45:00,320 --> 00:45:02,680
Speaker 1: It's a guy in a booth in the stadium who's

807
00:45:02,719 --> 00:45:04,600
Speaker 1: got a bunch of TVs in front of him with

808
00:45:04,719 --> 00:45:07,239
Speaker 1: a lot of different angles that it takes us as

809
00:45:07,400 --> 00:45:09,440
Speaker 1: viewers at home. You know, you gotta watch this one.

810
00:45:09,440 --> 00:45:11,040
Speaker 1: Then we're gonna go watch that one. Then we're gonna

811
00:45:11,040 --> 00:45:12,919
Speaker 1: watch this one. He can pick the one right away,

812
00:45:13,280 --> 00:45:15,360
Speaker 1: look at it and he'll say, yeah, thumbs up, that

813
00:45:15,400 --> 00:45:16,840
Speaker 1: was a good call. I'm gonna let it slide, or

814
00:45:16,920 --> 00:45:18,720
Speaker 1: this one, say that, you know what, Hold on a minute,

815
00:45:19,080 --> 00:45:21,879
Speaker 1: that ball moved. It's an incomplete pass. And he'll buzz

816
00:45:21,960 --> 00:45:27,760
Speaker 1: down real quick and say, hey, you know, Cleet Blakeman, Hey, Cleet,

817
00:45:28,040 --> 00:45:30,080
Speaker 1: that was a bad call. That was an incomplete pass.

818
00:45:30,239 --> 00:45:32,200
Speaker 1: Let's go get take it back. It's third and ten,

819
00:45:32,560 --> 00:45:35,080
Speaker 1: you know, go you know, stop the clock, put put

820
00:45:35,120 --> 00:45:37,520
Speaker 1: the clock back to where it was. Let's go that's

821
00:45:37,560 --> 00:45:39,600
Speaker 1: how fast it needs to happen. And that's what we're

822
00:45:39,600 --> 00:45:43,280
Speaker 1: talking about. It's an actual human being looking at every

823
00:45:43,360 --> 00:45:47,319
Speaker 1: angle all the time, where we have to go by

824
00:45:47,360 --> 00:45:48,640
Speaker 1: and look at this one. Okay, let's see it at

825
00:45:48,640 --> 00:45:51,080
Speaker 1: another angle. Do we have another angle where is it isn't? Okay?

826
00:45:51,120 --> 00:45:53,080
Speaker 1: Then he can go right to the right angle, right

827
00:45:53,160 --> 00:45:55,840
Speaker 1: off the top and boom, it's done. Yeah, that's the

828
00:45:55,920 --> 00:45:59,920
Speaker 1: technology that's gonna help. And I think it would logically,

829
00:46:00,000 --> 00:46:02,640
Speaker 1: instead of having a coach staring at a you know,

830
00:46:02,760 --> 00:46:05,160
Speaker 1: jumbo scoreboard hoping to get the replay, he needs to

831
00:46:05,200 --> 00:46:07,560
Speaker 1: convince him to throw the chat whatever angle they give him.

832
00:46:07,640 --> 00:46:10,120
Speaker 1: The guy up stairs already has all of those, or

833
00:46:10,360 --> 00:46:14,640
Speaker 1: in real time may be able to see, you know,

834
00:46:14,719 --> 00:46:17,000
Speaker 1: with all the camera angles at his disposal. Hey, we

835
00:46:17,640 --> 00:46:20,400
Speaker 1: really miss that. We got to fix that. And just

836
00:46:20,520 --> 00:46:24,560
Speaker 1: so Tom knows, Pete Carroll did begin his professional coaching

837
00:46:24,600 --> 00:46:27,960
Speaker 1: career in Buffalo as a defensive backs coach in nineteen

838
00:46:28,040 --> 00:46:31,120
Speaker 1: eighty four under Kay Stevenson. So he did come to

839
00:46:31,200 --> 00:46:33,879
Speaker 1: Buffalo at the beginning of his career, didn't come back

840
00:46:33,920 --> 00:46:36,200
Speaker 1: as a head coach, as you alluded to eight O

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00:46:36,360 --> 00:46:39,319
Speaker 1: three five fifty one eighty eight five fifty two five

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00:46:39,480 --> 00:46:42,560
Speaker 1: fifty Does the NFL need a sky judge to overrule

843
00:46:42,680 --> 00:46:45,880
Speaker 1: calls on the field? And we're talking about an actual official,

844
00:46:46,000 --> 00:46:48,520
Speaker 1: not some camera up in the sky that's got super

845
00:46:48,640 --> 00:46:51,680
Speaker 1: zoom lens or whatever. We want to know what you think.

846
00:46:52,000 --> 00:46:53,800
Speaker 1: At eight o three oh five fifty. We'll get to

847
00:46:53,840 --> 00:46:55,600
Speaker 1: the tweet sheet and a little bit, but we'll go

848
00:46:55,760 --> 00:46:58,600
Speaker 1: back to the phones now because waiting there for us

849
00:46:58,920 --> 00:47:00,880
Speaker 1: is Paul in Florida. Paul, what do you have for us?

850
00:47:00,920 --> 00:47:06,320
Speaker 1: Your one bills live? Yes, Um, I talked to you

851
00:47:06,400 --> 00:47:10,000
Speaker 1: guys last time. It was before the Ravens game. We

852
00:47:10,120 --> 00:47:13,960
Speaker 1: talked about the issue about tight ends. But anyway, in

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Speaker 1: regard to the question in hand as sky judge, I'm

854
00:47:17,400 --> 00:47:20,920
Speaker 1: suggesting that that the need for a sky judge might

855
00:47:21,000 --> 00:47:24,880
Speaker 1: be related to the COVID situation, and that when you

856
00:47:24,960 --> 00:47:30,520
Speaker 1: talk about the selection of teams of officials, it's become

857
00:47:31,320 --> 00:47:36,080
Speaker 1: very difficult for them because of the inconsistency, that it

858
00:47:36,160 --> 00:47:39,839
Speaker 1: might be necessary to have an overseeing judge to help

859
00:47:39,880 --> 00:47:43,239
Speaker 1: out with Are you saying because they've had to they've

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00:47:43,280 --> 00:47:45,399
Speaker 1: had to mix and match cruis. Is that what you're

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00:47:45,440 --> 00:47:52,960
Speaker 1: getting at, Paul, exactly exactly. Yeah, I mean, yes, I

862
00:47:53,120 --> 00:47:56,000
Speaker 1: think that, you know, and of course, over the years,

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00:47:56,320 --> 00:47:59,160
Speaker 1: I think it's kind of an indictment that there's been

864
00:47:59,680 --> 00:48:05,120
Speaker 1: a there's been questions about officiating for so long. Nowadays

865
00:48:05,480 --> 00:48:11,360
Speaker 1: there's a feeling that maybe they're finally going to decide

866
00:48:11,400 --> 00:48:14,920
Speaker 1: to make it as consistent as possible. Well, yeah, I

867
00:48:14,960 --> 00:48:17,200
Speaker 1: think they're always striving to do that, Paul. I don't

868
00:48:17,239 --> 00:48:19,080
Speaker 1: think there's any question about it. And thanks for the call.

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00:48:19,239 --> 00:48:22,680
Speaker 1: I mean they want to get it right. I mean

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00:48:22,760 --> 00:48:26,320
Speaker 1: that's the end game of any official in any sport,

871
00:48:26,840 --> 00:48:30,960
Speaker 1: to get it right. That's why they're there. But we

872
00:48:31,040 --> 00:48:33,960
Speaker 1: also have to remember these guys are human. They're not

873
00:48:34,080 --> 00:48:36,520
Speaker 1: going to be perfect and I don't know that and

874
00:48:37,160 --> 00:48:40,239
Speaker 1: I think that is underestimated too. Even if you are

875
00:48:40,400 --> 00:48:43,840
Speaker 1: at the game and you are sitting in an elevated position,

876
00:48:44,200 --> 00:48:47,080
Speaker 1: you know, two hundred level whatever, and you're watching the

877
00:48:47,120 --> 00:48:51,040
Speaker 1: action on the field and it seems fast, go down

878
00:48:51,120 --> 00:48:54,759
Speaker 1: on the sideline and then you will have a much

879
00:48:54,880 --> 00:49:00,960
Speaker 1: greater appreciation for how fast this game moves. I remember

880
00:49:01,000 --> 00:49:05,720
Speaker 1: doing that with hockey. I had an appreciation for hockey,

881
00:49:05,840 --> 00:49:07,799
Speaker 1: but when I was working at gr and I would

882
00:49:07,800 --> 00:49:09,960
Speaker 1: have to fill in for Paul if he was, you know,

883
00:49:10,040 --> 00:49:11,759
Speaker 1: on assignment doing something. I had to go cover a

884
00:49:11,800 --> 00:49:17,000
Speaker 1: Sabers practice. You don't realize how fast those guys are

885
00:49:17,040 --> 00:49:20,080
Speaker 1: moving until you're a media member at practice and you're

886
00:49:20,080 --> 00:49:23,480
Speaker 1: sitting in the bench area watching practice. You're that close.

887
00:49:23,800 --> 00:49:27,000
Speaker 1: It's like, what the hell was that that just flew past?

888
00:49:27,120 --> 00:49:29,759
Speaker 1: You know what I mean? Like, you have no appreciation

889
00:49:29,880 --> 00:49:32,800
Speaker 1: for how fast things move unless you're right there in

890
00:49:32,880 --> 00:49:35,160
Speaker 1: front of it and you see it flashing in front

891
00:49:35,160 --> 00:49:37,160
Speaker 1: of you. Is just a series of blurs. Those guys

892
00:49:37,280 --> 00:49:39,399
Speaker 1: run by, you can feel the ground shake, and it's

893
00:49:39,480 --> 00:49:41,880
Speaker 1: they're big, and they're fast, and they and they're skilled

894
00:49:41,920 --> 00:49:44,080
Speaker 1: and all of that. I think one thing that that

895
00:49:44,239 --> 00:49:46,919
Speaker 1: Paul said, Paul from Florida, the caller said that really

896
00:49:47,000 --> 00:49:48,840
Speaker 1: makes a lot of sense to me, and that I

897
00:49:48,960 --> 00:49:52,759
Speaker 1: hadn't really put much thought into, is that maybe it

898
00:49:52,880 --> 00:49:56,160
Speaker 1: will help with what everybody really always wanted from the

899
00:49:56,239 --> 00:50:01,200
Speaker 1: officials anyway. Consistency. That's the one that is the one

900
00:50:01,480 --> 00:50:04,799
Speaker 1: holy grail that everybody would just ask for. They don't

901
00:50:04,960 --> 00:50:07,239
Speaker 1: you write the rules what you want. You write them

902
00:50:07,280 --> 00:50:08,720
Speaker 1: however you want. But when we get on the field,

903
00:50:08,960 --> 00:50:11,719
Speaker 1: if this call is a penalty here, and it's also

904
00:50:11,760 --> 00:50:13,760
Speaker 1: a penalty there. It's got to also be a penalty

905
00:50:13,840 --> 00:50:16,000
Speaker 1: over there, and it's got to be a penalty next week,

906
00:50:16,080 --> 00:50:17,560
Speaker 1: just like it is this week. If you can get

907
00:50:17,880 --> 00:50:20,560
Speaker 1: consistent all the way across the boards, you'll never have

908
00:50:20,680 --> 00:50:23,560
Speaker 1: anybody complain about what the rules are as long as

909
00:50:23,600 --> 00:50:25,720
Speaker 1: they know what they are, and they're gonna get called

910
00:50:26,080 --> 00:50:28,319
Speaker 1: every week for this and they're not going to get

911
00:50:28,360 --> 00:50:31,480
Speaker 1: away with that. If they can get consistent across the board,

912
00:50:32,440 --> 00:50:34,600
Speaker 1: fans will be happy, players and coaches will be happy.

913
00:50:34,640 --> 00:50:36,920
Speaker 1: The game will get better. Yeah, I just I think

914
00:50:36,960 --> 00:50:39,640
Speaker 1: that's a hard thing to capture, because, yes, everybody's different.

915
00:50:40,040 --> 00:50:42,520
Speaker 1: I mean we've talked about it on this show. Like

916
00:50:42,719 --> 00:50:46,040
Speaker 1: the Carl Cheffer's crew calls more past interference than anybody

917
00:50:46,080 --> 00:50:49,600
Speaker 1: else in the league by a wide margin, and so

918
00:50:51,840 --> 00:50:55,920
Speaker 1: that changes the way a defense has to play that

919
00:50:56,200 --> 00:50:59,680
Speaker 1: week with that crew, and then the next week they

920
00:50:59,719 --> 00:51:02,880
Speaker 1: may not. I have to That's right. That's that's what

921
00:51:03,600 --> 00:51:06,839
Speaker 1: the real that's the real thing everybody wants. I don't

922
00:51:06,840 --> 00:51:09,360
Speaker 1: know if we're ever getting there. Yeah, I don't know

923
00:51:09,440 --> 00:51:12,200
Speaker 1: if we're getting there. I think we're just happy if

924
00:51:12,239 --> 00:51:15,239
Speaker 1: they can get it right, especially if it's been egregiously

925
00:51:15,280 --> 00:51:17,359
Speaker 1: called on the field. And that's where this guy judge,

926
00:51:17,400 --> 00:51:20,279
Speaker 1: I think can be a benefit. Yeah, and I've heard

927
00:51:20,360 --> 00:51:23,560
Speaker 1: and I remember my good friend Bruce de Haven who

928
00:51:23,680 --> 00:51:26,239
Speaker 1: coached me. It was a tremendous special teams and had

929
00:51:26,239 --> 00:51:28,120
Speaker 1: a lot to say. A good friend of a good

930
00:51:28,160 --> 00:51:31,640
Speaker 1: friend of mine. Um, he just said he goes. Most

931
00:51:31,719 --> 00:51:34,400
Speaker 1: coaches and players can live if if you miss it,

932
00:51:34,800 --> 00:51:37,440
Speaker 1: I get it, you miss it. We all get that.

933
00:51:38,239 --> 00:51:42,120
Speaker 1: When you call something that doesn't happen, that's a problem.

934
00:51:42,760 --> 00:51:47,120
Speaker 1: That's a problem. But they're equal. They're they're equal. They're

935
00:51:47,160 --> 00:51:50,520
Speaker 1: equal mistakes, but one you can kind of understand the

936
00:51:50,600 --> 00:51:55,360
Speaker 1: other one's like, I don't understand that. So that was

937
00:51:55,440 --> 00:51:59,520
Speaker 1: always consistency has always been that mantra. And once you

938
00:51:59,560 --> 00:52:02,480
Speaker 1: get into the game. That's why now teams have files

939
00:52:02,520 --> 00:52:05,880
Speaker 1: on they know how these guys, how these guys call penalty.

940
00:52:05,920 --> 00:52:07,359
Speaker 1: They know what they've done, they know what they've done

941
00:52:07,400 --> 00:52:09,799
Speaker 1: in the past. They've looked at them and they've dissected them.

942
00:52:10,440 --> 00:52:14,200
Speaker 1: So they kind of prepare for that because it is

943
00:52:14,360 --> 00:52:18,279
Speaker 1: so important and the margins are so thin. We have

944
00:52:18,360 --> 00:52:19,880
Speaker 1: to take a break, but when we come back we

945
00:52:19,960 --> 00:52:21,960
Speaker 1: are wide open for more of your phone calls at

946
00:52:22,000 --> 00:52:25,000
Speaker 1: eight three fifty one eight eight five fifty two five

947
00:52:25,160 --> 00:52:27,680
Speaker 1: fifty or hit us up on the tweet sheet. Does

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00:52:27,719 --> 00:52:30,200
Speaker 1: the NFL need a sky judge to overrule calls on

949
00:52:30,280 --> 00:52:32,800
Speaker 1: the field. It looks like the owners will be voting

950
00:52:32,840 --> 00:52:35,720
Speaker 1: on that as early as next week at their owners

951
00:52:35,800 --> 00:52:39,040
Speaker 1: meetings on the thirtieth and thirty first, and there seems

952
00:52:39,080 --> 00:52:42,160
Speaker 1: to be enough support to enact it. What do you think?

953
00:52:42,560 --> 00:52:44,160
Speaker 1: Give us a call, let us know, or hit us

954
00:52:44,239 --> 00:52:45,759
Speaker 1: up on the tweet sheets. Steve and I back with

955
00:52:45,840 --> 00:52:48,200
Speaker 1: more here on One Bill's Live, presented by Collid to Health.

956
00:52:48,320 --> 00:53:02,279
Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bill's Radio, Buffalo Bills Radio, Net Sports, your

957
00:53:02,400 --> 00:53:05,880
Speaker 1: sports update from One Bill's Drive. Wide receiver Isaiah McKenzie

958
00:53:05,920 --> 00:53:10,520
Speaker 1: appears set to return to Orchard Park. McKenzie's agents announced

959
00:53:10,600 --> 00:53:13,040
Speaker 1: on Twitter that McKenzie's agreed to a new deal with

960
00:53:13,200 --> 00:53:16,680
Speaker 1: the Bills on Tuesday. Here today. No terms were part

961
00:53:16,719 --> 00:53:19,920
Speaker 1: of the announcement. McKenzie turned into productive twenty twenty season,

962
00:53:20,239 --> 00:53:22,439
Speaker 1: had thirty receptions for two hundred and eighty two yards

963
00:53:22,480 --> 00:53:25,239
Speaker 1: and five touchdowns, also through a twelve yard touchdown pass.

964
00:53:25,840 --> 00:53:28,200
Speaker 1: He turned his lone punt return of the year into

965
00:53:28,280 --> 00:53:31,480
Speaker 1: an eighty four yard touchdown as well. The Bills cut

966
00:53:31,600 --> 00:53:34,880
Speaker 1: John Brown earlier this month, but added Emmanuel Sanders to

967
00:53:34,960 --> 00:53:38,120
Speaker 1: a receiving course that brings back Stefan Diggs, Cole Beasley,

968
00:53:38,480 --> 00:53:42,400
Speaker 1: Gabriel Davis, and it seems, at least at this point, McKenzie,

969
00:53:42,440 --> 00:53:45,640
Speaker 1: although the team is not officially confirmed the signing. The

970
00:53:45,719 --> 00:53:47,880
Speaker 1: New York Giants made their second big move in a

971
00:53:47,960 --> 00:53:50,000
Speaker 1: matter of days when they agreed to terms with former

972
00:53:50,040 --> 00:53:53,680
Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans cornerback of Dory Jackson on Monday, dealist for

973
00:53:53,800 --> 00:53:56,840
Speaker 1: three years thirty nine million dollars. Giants also signed receiver

974
00:53:56,960 --> 00:54:00,360
Speaker 1: Kenny Galladay to a four year, seventy two million dollars packed.

975
00:54:00,760 --> 00:54:03,759
Speaker 1: Jackson was recently released by the Titans, the former first

976
00:54:03,880 --> 00:54:08,960
Speaker 1: round pick by Tennessee in twenty seventeen. More allegations against

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00:54:09,040 --> 00:54:13,480
Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson. A fourteenth lawsuit alleging sexual assault and inappropriate

978
00:54:13,560 --> 00:54:16,520
Speaker 1: conduct was filed against Watson by a woman who says

979
00:54:16,600 --> 00:54:20,840
Speaker 1: she believes the Houston Texans quarterback is a quote serial predator.

980
00:54:21,200 --> 00:54:23,480
Speaker 1: The lawsuit, which was filed Monday night and appearing on

981
00:54:23,560 --> 00:54:27,759
Speaker 1: the Harris County District Clerk's website Tuesday morning alleges that

982
00:54:27,840 --> 00:54:31,520
Speaker 1: Watson quote assaulted and harassed the plaintiff. The incident allegedly

983
00:54:31,560 --> 00:54:34,640
Speaker 1: took place in California, the second of fourteen allegations to

984
00:54:34,760 --> 00:54:38,640
Speaker 1: take place outside the Houston area. Running back Nag Harris

985
00:54:38,760 --> 00:54:41,279
Speaker 1: isn't working out at Alabama's pro day on Tuesday, but

986
00:54:41,360 --> 00:54:43,160
Speaker 1: it didn't mean he wasn't willing to do whatever it

987
00:54:43,280 --> 00:54:46,279
Speaker 1: took to be there for his teammates who are participating.

988
00:54:46,280 --> 00:54:48,719
Speaker 1: According to Adam Schefter with the ESPN, Harris saw his

989
00:54:48,800 --> 00:54:51,960
Speaker 1: flight get canceled from Dallas to Birmingham last night due

990
00:54:51,960 --> 00:54:54,200
Speaker 1: to a lightning storm. He then hopped in a car

991
00:54:54,280 --> 00:54:56,880
Speaker 1: made a nine hour drive to get to Tuscaloosa to

992
00:54:56,920 --> 00:54:59,600
Speaker 1: support his teammates. He's been mocked numerous times. To the

993
00:54:59,640 --> 00:55:02,840
Speaker 1: Bills number thirty in the first round, and Chris Crider

994
00:55:02,920 --> 00:55:05,520
Speaker 1: scored twice, including the tiebreaking goal in the third period,

995
00:55:05,800 --> 00:55:08,799
Speaker 1: as the Rangers beat Buffalo five to three on Monday night,

996
00:55:08,880 --> 00:55:12,400
Speaker 1: handing the Sabers their franchise record tying fourteenth straight defeat.

997
00:55:12,800 --> 00:55:16,000
Speaker 1: Next up, the Sabers visit the Penguins on Wednesday. That's

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00:55:16,000 --> 00:55:19,000
Speaker 1: your sports update from One Bill's Drive. Chris Brown, Steve

999
00:55:19,040 --> 00:55:21,239
Speaker 1: Tasker with you here for our number two of a

1000
00:55:21,280 --> 00:55:24,320
Speaker 1: Tuesday edition of One Bills Live broadcasting from the Seneca

1001
00:55:24,360 --> 00:55:28,680
Speaker 1: Studios here in Orchard Park. And we are talking about

1002
00:55:29,480 --> 00:55:32,680
Speaker 1: the NFL and the need for a sky judge to

1003
00:55:32,800 --> 00:55:36,560
Speaker 1: overrule calls on the field, as Peter King from Football

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00:55:36,640 --> 00:55:41,239
Speaker 1: Morning in America's column wrote, And we'll cover this with

1005
00:55:41,360 --> 00:55:43,040
Speaker 1: him in the third hour the program, as he'll be

1006
00:55:43,120 --> 00:55:46,640
Speaker 1: joining us in the two o'clock hour. It looks as

1007
00:55:46,680 --> 00:55:50,520
Speaker 1: though there is enough support of the ownership to enact

1008
00:55:50,680 --> 00:55:54,640
Speaker 1: a sky judge who would have the authority to overrule

1009
00:55:54,719 --> 00:55:57,200
Speaker 1: calls on the field. Buzz down to the head officials say, hey,

1010
00:55:57,239 --> 00:55:58,920
Speaker 1: you guys, screwed that one up. We gotta fix it.

1011
00:55:59,320 --> 00:56:02,399
Speaker 1: Here's what really happen in complete pass or didn't get

1012
00:56:02,440 --> 00:56:05,560
Speaker 1: two feet down, whatever it is, it looks like it

1013
00:56:05,719 --> 00:56:08,640
Speaker 1: has the support of ownership and may in fact pass

1014
00:56:08,719 --> 00:56:11,680
Speaker 1: at the owner's meetings next Monday and Tuesday, which would

1015
00:56:11,680 --> 00:56:15,040
Speaker 1: then lead to a ratification thereafter. Where do you stand

1016
00:56:15,120 --> 00:56:17,160
Speaker 1: on it? Eight oh three oh five fifty. We have

1017
00:56:17,239 --> 00:56:19,719
Speaker 1: open lines for you there one eight at eight five

1018
00:56:19,880 --> 00:56:22,160
Speaker 1: fifty two five fifty. Let us know if you think

1019
00:56:22,200 --> 00:56:25,120
Speaker 1: it should be in place, if there's already too many layers,

1020
00:56:25,160 --> 00:56:28,360
Speaker 1: if officiating, or just forget the whole thing. Leave the

1021
00:56:28,480 --> 00:56:30,880
Speaker 1: replay system as is. We don't need another wrench thrown

1022
00:56:30,880 --> 00:56:33,799
Speaker 1: in the worst. It's kind of nice. I hadn't thought

1023
00:56:33,800 --> 00:56:36,440
Speaker 1: about this until we started it down this road with

1024
00:56:36,560 --> 00:56:38,560
Speaker 1: this rule change. You know, there's a couple of rule

1025
00:56:38,640 --> 00:56:40,560
Speaker 1: change they're going on the fourth. If there's a rule change,

1026
00:56:40,880 --> 00:56:44,640
Speaker 1: fifteen and fifteen's up for review, the spot and chooses thing.

1027
00:56:44,960 --> 00:56:49,320
Speaker 1: This thing is up also for review. Um, you know

1028
00:56:49,360 --> 00:56:54,080
Speaker 1: the onside kick, the alternative onside kick thing was your

1029
00:56:54,120 --> 00:56:55,800
Speaker 1: offense would take it, and that kind of thing. So

1030
00:56:55,880 --> 00:56:59,080
Speaker 1: a fourth and fifteen, right, All this stuff's up for review.

1031
00:56:59,120 --> 00:57:02,919
Speaker 1: And it just a heard to me, Brownie that it's

1032
00:57:03,000 --> 00:57:04,960
Speaker 1: kind of nice to be talking about this stuff rather

1033
00:57:05,080 --> 00:57:10,160
Speaker 1: than COVID and like testing and protocol first world problems. Right,

1034
00:57:11,800 --> 00:57:14,560
Speaker 1: talking about rule changes again, Gosh, it's kind of refreshing.

1035
00:57:14,719 --> 00:57:19,640
Speaker 1: But be that as it may, I still think this

1036
00:57:19,840 --> 00:57:22,520
Speaker 1: is gonna go. I think this, I think this is

1037
00:57:22,560 --> 00:57:25,480
Speaker 1: really going to go, and I think this may finally

1038
00:57:25,600 --> 00:57:30,160
Speaker 1: get us to a spot where replay is less frustrating

1039
00:57:30,200 --> 00:57:33,080
Speaker 1: than it has been over the past. Couple of decades.

1040
00:57:34,600 --> 00:57:37,320
Speaker 1: I kind of like the idea of a sky judge

1041
00:57:37,720 --> 00:57:41,000
Speaker 1: tzar as it were, because this kind the game. Yeah,

1042
00:57:41,400 --> 00:57:42,960
Speaker 1: I just want to just kind of swoop in and

1043
00:57:43,080 --> 00:57:47,320
Speaker 1: say hey, because presumably, I guess in my mind's eye,

1044
00:57:48,640 --> 00:57:54,360
Speaker 1: I am presumably envisioning a replay official up there, and

1045
00:57:54,600 --> 00:57:57,360
Speaker 1: he's seeing all the same stuff that we see at

1046
00:57:57,400 --> 00:57:59,920
Speaker 1: the games or watching at home on TV, like, hey,

1047
00:58:00,280 --> 00:58:02,720
Speaker 1: how did you miss that? I kind of see the

1048
00:58:02,760 --> 00:58:06,080
Speaker 1: sky judge in the same boat. He's like, you miss that?

1049
00:58:06,360 --> 00:58:10,120
Speaker 1: I've gone. I've been public about my disdain for the

1050
00:58:10,280 --> 00:58:13,360
Speaker 1: New York review system ever since. If you don't have

1051
00:58:13,520 --> 00:58:16,040
Speaker 1: the right guy in New York, it's not gonna work. Yeah,

1052
00:58:16,400 --> 00:58:18,320
Speaker 1: they don't. I don't believe they have the right guy

1053
00:58:18,320 --> 00:58:20,440
Speaker 1: in New York. I think he's I think they've been

1054
00:58:20,480 --> 00:58:23,480
Speaker 1: too inconsistent and a little bit arbitrary at times. So

1055
00:58:25,240 --> 00:58:29,240
Speaker 1: having said that, now, the ripple effect is having a

1056
00:58:29,320 --> 00:58:31,760
Speaker 1: guy at each stadium get it out of that guy's hand.

1057
00:58:31,960 --> 00:58:35,000
Speaker 1: I like it. I would think you do too. We

1058
00:58:35,080 --> 00:58:37,240
Speaker 1: would never have gotten there had had the League popped

1059
00:58:37,320 --> 00:58:39,320
Speaker 1: up and said, Dean Blandino, you're gonna do this, and

1060
00:58:39,360 --> 00:58:40,920
Speaker 1: you're gonna keep doing it. We're gonna pay you what

1061
00:58:41,040 --> 00:58:43,520
Speaker 1: it takes. The league would never have needed it that

1062
00:58:43,680 --> 00:58:47,600
Speaker 1: the replay process would have been, would have had an

1063
00:58:47,960 --> 00:58:51,360
Speaker 1: entirely different tenor over the last five or six years,

1064
00:58:51,400 --> 00:58:55,160
Speaker 1: more consistent, would have been more more streamlined everything. It

1065
00:58:55,200 --> 00:58:58,760
Speaker 1: would have yes, and you would have had yes. It

1066
00:58:58,840 --> 00:59:01,040
Speaker 1: just would have been better. It's all. That's my contention.

1067
00:59:01,760 --> 00:59:09,000
Speaker 1: This is a reaction to problems that coaches and gms

1068
00:59:09,080 --> 00:59:11,600
Speaker 1: and owners have seen in the system the way it

1069
00:59:11,680 --> 00:59:16,520
Speaker 1: is now because it has been inconsistent, even though they

1070
00:59:16,560 --> 00:59:19,160
Speaker 1: only got one guy doing it. Yeah, they've it's been

1071
00:59:19,240 --> 00:59:22,160
Speaker 1: inconsistent and arbitrary at times, and I think people are like,

1072
00:59:23,240 --> 00:59:25,280
Speaker 1: what's going on. We gotta fix it, so at least

1073
00:59:25,280 --> 00:59:28,000
Speaker 1: we'll have a guy in the stadium who can get

1074
00:59:28,040 --> 00:59:31,680
Speaker 1: it out of the you know, inconsistent rulers hands. There's

1075
00:59:31,720 --> 00:59:35,360
Speaker 1: just a detached element to going to New York to

1076
00:59:35,480 --> 00:59:37,760
Speaker 1: review a play in Buffalo or a review a play

1077
00:59:37,840 --> 00:59:41,120
Speaker 1: in Seattle. That just doesn't seem right. It doesn't sit

1078
00:59:41,280 --> 00:59:44,320
Speaker 1: right with me, Like, you're not at the game, you're

1079
00:59:44,480 --> 00:59:46,919
Speaker 1: and I understand what's the difference of a guy sitting

1080
00:59:46,960 --> 00:59:49,200
Speaker 1: in a booth at the game watching it on a

1081
00:59:49,280 --> 00:59:51,840
Speaker 1: screen over again from a guy in New York watching

1082
00:59:51,880 --> 00:59:55,400
Speaker 1: it over on a screen again. I just I want

1083
00:59:55,440 --> 00:59:59,000
Speaker 1: a guy that's there, man or woman. I want somebody

1084
00:59:59,080 --> 01:00:03,280
Speaker 1: that's there right in the moment, understands the flow of

1085
01:00:03,360 --> 01:00:07,600
Speaker 1: the game, understands the veritable importance of that play at

1086
01:00:07,720 --> 01:00:11,720
Speaker 1: that moment in that game, based on how things have unfolded.

1087
01:00:11,760 --> 01:00:14,200
Speaker 1: And I don't know if whoever it is in New

1088
01:00:14,280 --> 01:00:16,640
Speaker 1: York is fully in tune with that. There's no way

1089
01:00:16,680 --> 01:00:19,720
Speaker 1: they can be, because they're arguably looking at sixteen different games.

1090
01:00:19,760 --> 01:00:20,800
Speaker 1: I don't know if I can get I don't know

1091
01:00:20,840 --> 01:00:23,320
Speaker 1: if I buy into all of that. Brownie. Here's why

1092
01:00:23,640 --> 01:00:25,720
Speaker 1: I don't have a problem with the guy being dispassionate.

1093
01:00:26,280 --> 01:00:28,240
Speaker 1: Remew just show them something in a vacuum. Here's the

1094
01:00:28,320 --> 01:00:30,120
Speaker 1: one problem that has been and this is what you

1095
01:00:30,240 --> 01:00:32,480
Speaker 1: hear from the guys in New York who do this.

1096
01:00:33,840 --> 01:00:37,240
Speaker 1: They're kind of constrained, constricted by what was actually called

1097
01:00:37,280 --> 01:00:40,120
Speaker 1: on the field. I'll give you an example. The Bills

1098
01:00:40,200 --> 01:00:46,520
Speaker 1: are playing the Rams. The Rams. Tyler Croft goes up,

1099
01:00:46,600 --> 01:00:48,840
Speaker 1: catches the ball, starts to come down with another guy.

1100
01:00:49,000 --> 01:00:51,560
Speaker 1: The defender puts his hands on the ball. They fall

1101
01:00:51,640 --> 01:00:54,280
Speaker 1: to the ground and they wrestle around a little bit,

1102
01:00:55,680 --> 01:01:02,520
Speaker 1: and it's called an interception on the field. On the field, well,

1103
01:01:04,040 --> 01:01:06,720
Speaker 1: replay can't fix that because it's call under said. Unless

1104
01:01:06,760 --> 01:01:12,640
Speaker 1: you have, you know, evidence that the ball didn't change possession,

1105
01:01:12,960 --> 01:01:14,920
Speaker 1: you can't change and there's no angles on that. So

1106
01:01:15,080 --> 01:01:18,040
Speaker 1: he's he is limited. My point is that the guy

1107
01:01:18,080 --> 01:01:19,960
Speaker 1: in New York is limited by what was called on

1108
01:01:20,040 --> 01:01:23,240
Speaker 1: the field. He has to have proof to review it,

1109
01:01:24,800 --> 01:01:27,120
Speaker 1: and it won't do it. It won't do it. And

1110
01:01:27,320 --> 01:01:29,560
Speaker 1: I'd be interested to know if they give this sky

1111
01:01:29,760 --> 01:01:32,000
Speaker 1: judge a guy who's actually there, sought in real time,

1112
01:01:32,080 --> 01:01:34,560
Speaker 1: saw what happened before they get to the point where

1113
01:01:34,600 --> 01:01:36,880
Speaker 1: it's like gall said, and is carved in granted to

1114
01:01:36,960 --> 01:01:40,160
Speaker 1: say no, no, no, no, no, that does he have

1115
01:01:40,280 --> 01:01:42,920
Speaker 1: that authority because until you do, the call on the

1116
01:01:43,040 --> 01:01:47,320
Speaker 1: field dictates what's possible in replay in some instances. That's

1117
01:01:47,320 --> 01:01:49,920
Speaker 1: a very good point because I hadn't gotten that far

1118
01:01:50,240 --> 01:01:52,680
Speaker 1: down the rabbit hole yet. But I'm glad you were digging.

1119
01:01:53,520 --> 01:01:57,560
Speaker 1: I'm already down here. I'm covered in dirt the right,

1120
01:01:59,400 --> 01:02:02,960
Speaker 1: I've got it under my fingernails. Bro Yes, I've buried,

1121
01:02:03,160 --> 01:02:06,640
Speaker 1: I've buried numerous god, through three shovels, I've buried numerous

1122
01:02:06,680 --> 01:02:12,880
Speaker 1: bodies in this rabbit hole. That's it. So what happened?

1123
01:02:13,000 --> 01:02:15,160
Speaker 1: So you come New York comes in the first thing,

1124
01:02:15,200 --> 01:02:18,560
Speaker 1: the guy asks what's the call? Because then he'll say, okay,

1125
01:02:18,600 --> 01:02:20,080
Speaker 1: what's the call? And he'll say and they'll tell him

1126
01:02:20,240 --> 01:02:21,600
Speaker 1: and he'll say, look at it. And I'll say, well

1127
01:02:22,000 --> 01:02:24,240
Speaker 1: he called that. I there's nothing I can do. But

1128
01:02:24,280 --> 01:02:27,640
Speaker 1: I don't have the juristics. I can't fix it. I

1129
01:02:27,760 --> 01:02:32,240
Speaker 1: can't fix it. So that's an issue. And I until

1130
01:02:32,280 --> 01:02:36,160
Speaker 1: they can fix that, you know, you're always gonna have

1131
01:02:36,280 --> 01:02:39,400
Speaker 1: this wrinkle. Yeah, So step one he'll be approving him,

1132
01:02:39,400 --> 01:02:41,320
Speaker 1: and then step two is gonna be what's his level

1133
01:02:41,360 --> 01:02:44,880
Speaker 1: of authority, like, exactly does he have carte blanche? He

1134
01:02:45,000 --> 01:02:47,840
Speaker 1: can overrule anything? Get it right? You know I don't

1135
01:02:47,880 --> 01:02:51,200
Speaker 1: have at the surface, we're all just sitting here going

1136
01:02:51,240 --> 01:02:53,520
Speaker 1: at just make it get it right, get it right. Well,

1137
01:02:53,640 --> 01:02:56,000
Speaker 1: we're gonna have to unlearn some stuff too then, because

1138
01:02:56,040 --> 01:02:58,360
Speaker 1: you say, if you say that guy that you can't

1139
01:02:58,440 --> 01:03:01,200
Speaker 1: see that, and the and the guy in the booth

1140
01:03:01,200 --> 01:03:02,920
Speaker 1: may say, I don't have to see it. I know

1141
01:03:03,000 --> 01:03:05,560
Speaker 1: what the call should have been Yeah, it should have

1142
01:03:05,600 --> 01:03:07,920
Speaker 1: been push off on their office, not it should have

1143
01:03:07,920 --> 01:03:09,920
Speaker 1: been a push off on the defense, not an interception.

1144
01:03:10,680 --> 01:03:12,080
Speaker 1: So are you gonna get it that? Are you gonna

1145
01:03:12,080 --> 01:03:14,080
Speaker 1: get that right? Or you don't want it quite You

1146
01:03:14,120 --> 01:03:15,680
Speaker 1: don't want to get it quite that right? You know

1147
01:03:15,840 --> 01:03:19,120
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So level of authorities will

1148
01:03:19,280 --> 01:03:22,640
Speaker 1: be an important component the slippery slope. And you know

1149
01:03:22,720 --> 01:03:24,320
Speaker 1: the slippery slope is always going to be there in

1150
01:03:24,400 --> 01:03:26,360
Speaker 1: some way, shape or form, right, I mean, how are

1151
01:03:26,360 --> 01:03:29,560
Speaker 1: you gonna get rid of it? The question is can

1152
01:03:29,640 --> 01:03:33,680
Speaker 1: you get it right to the satisfaction of everybody who's

1153
01:03:33,720 --> 01:03:37,040
Speaker 1: watching it. Let's go to the tweet shot out. Yeah,

1154
01:03:37,080 --> 01:03:40,240
Speaker 1: I'm not a whole I'm not wholly optimistic about that

1155
01:03:40,360 --> 01:03:42,880
Speaker 1: kind of an outcome, but I think it can make

1156
01:03:42,920 --> 01:03:46,720
Speaker 1: it better if we can get closer to perfect. No

1157
01:03:46,800 --> 01:03:48,920
Speaker 1: one will never get there. I'm I'm for it. How

1158
01:03:48,920 --> 01:03:50,960
Speaker 1: about this? Can we get at least can we at

1159
01:03:51,000 --> 01:03:53,480
Speaker 1: least get it as good as we got it now

1160
01:03:53,720 --> 01:03:58,440
Speaker 1: except faster? Yeah? And I mean that's that's an improvement.

1161
01:03:58,560 --> 01:04:02,440
Speaker 1: And there and there is the other play of if

1162
01:04:02,480 --> 01:04:05,280
Speaker 1: you have somebody with this level of authority, does that

1163
01:04:05,360 --> 01:04:07,760
Speaker 1: mean you take the authority to challenge plays away from

1164
01:04:07,760 --> 01:04:10,920
Speaker 1: the coaches. Because now you've got two coaches that can

1165
01:04:11,600 --> 01:04:13,960
Speaker 1: challenge calls, and you've got a sky judge who can

1166
01:04:14,080 --> 01:04:16,920
Speaker 1: challenge calls, you really run the risk of really gobbing

1167
01:04:17,040 --> 01:04:20,600
Speaker 1: up the game now, right, So that's the other thing.

1168
01:04:20,960 --> 01:04:25,120
Speaker 1: Does the sky judge take the authority away from the

1169
01:04:25,200 --> 01:04:27,280
Speaker 1: coaches where it only rests with him up in the

1170
01:04:27,360 --> 01:04:31,040
Speaker 1: booth for the entirety of a game? Do coaches want that?

1171
01:04:31,280 --> 01:04:33,280
Speaker 1: Do they not want that? I think some may say, here,

1172
01:04:33,440 --> 01:04:36,280
Speaker 1: take it. I gotta do enough on the sidelines during

1173
01:04:36,320 --> 01:04:38,160
Speaker 1: a game. I don't need that, so you want to

1174
01:04:38,160 --> 01:04:41,720
Speaker 1: take it? Take it? And then there's other coaches who

1175
01:04:41,760 --> 01:04:44,440
Speaker 1: are big on having controls whatever they aspect of what

1176
01:04:44,560 --> 01:04:46,600
Speaker 1: they do. Yeah, you gotta give me the bullet so

1177
01:04:47,400 --> 01:04:49,480
Speaker 1: I can shoot the monster if it rears its head. Right,

1178
01:04:49,480 --> 01:04:52,640
Speaker 1: at least I got a shot, and at least I

1179
01:04:52,680 --> 01:04:55,360
Speaker 1: can look at my owner and say, I threw the fly.

1180
01:04:55,800 --> 01:04:58,000
Speaker 1: Don't know what else you want me to do. So

1181
01:04:59,240 --> 01:05:02,240
Speaker 1: they have something that gives them a chance to at

1182
01:05:02,320 --> 01:05:07,080
Speaker 1: least and make a gesture to their team, their owner

1183
01:05:07,160 --> 01:05:10,280
Speaker 1: and their fans about listen, I'm trying here. It's out

1184
01:05:10,320 --> 01:05:13,600
Speaker 1: of my hands. Yeah, eight three five fifty one fifty

1185
01:05:13,640 --> 01:05:15,680
Speaker 1: two five fifty open line for you there. But let's

1186
01:05:15,680 --> 01:05:18,600
Speaker 1: go to the tweet sheet first. And it's brought to

1187
01:05:18,640 --> 01:05:21,280
Speaker 1: you by Corrigan Moving Systems, the official equipment moving company

1188
01:05:21,320 --> 01:05:26,240
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills, and Rachel says a sky job judge

1189
01:05:26,320 --> 01:05:30,400
Speaker 1: may help catch obvious bad calls, but I think implementing

1190
01:05:30,480 --> 01:05:33,200
Speaker 1: when and how they can intervene would be more complicated

1191
01:05:33,280 --> 01:05:36,640
Speaker 1: than people think. I believe increasing standards for officials and

1192
01:05:36,760 --> 01:05:39,640
Speaker 1: making them all full time employees would do much more

1193
01:05:40,080 --> 01:05:43,960
Speaker 1: to improve officiating. So Rachel doesn't necessarily see this as

1194
01:05:44,000 --> 01:05:49,640
Speaker 1: a quick fix by any means. Well, what are we

1195
01:05:49,720 --> 01:05:53,160
Speaker 1: trying to fix. We're trying to fix like that one

1196
01:05:53,320 --> 01:05:56,960
Speaker 1: call in every two games, right or one maybe one call?

1197
01:05:57,400 --> 01:06:01,040
Speaker 1: Let's boot it up. There's a call again that you're thinking, well,

1198
01:06:01,640 --> 01:06:04,640
Speaker 1: come on now, right and here's the problem? Or I

1199
01:06:04,680 --> 01:06:06,720
Speaker 1: don't a first quarter, first drive of the game, you

1200
01:06:06,760 --> 01:06:09,200
Speaker 1: miss it all, Like come on, well, okay, you got

1201
01:06:09,240 --> 01:06:10,640
Speaker 1: three quarters of the game. It's not going to be

1202
01:06:10,720 --> 01:06:13,160
Speaker 1: that consequentially, and even a touchdown, even give up a

1203
01:06:13,200 --> 01:06:16,480
Speaker 1: touchdown or some or a turnover or some egregious thing

1204
01:06:16,560 --> 01:06:18,640
Speaker 1: happens you got three quarters of the game and you're

1205
01:06:18,640 --> 01:06:21,360
Speaker 1: still gonna best team's probably still gonna win. The problem

1206
01:06:21,480 --> 01:06:24,920
Speaker 1: is this last minute of play and you get one

1207
01:06:24,920 --> 01:06:29,000
Speaker 1: of those, you can't recover. Yeah, and let's not forget

1208
01:06:29,080 --> 01:06:31,560
Speaker 1: this too. Seventy six percent of the games in this

1209
01:06:31,640 --> 01:06:34,880
Speaker 1: lad you're decided by eight points or less. Yeah, so

1210
01:06:35,000 --> 01:06:36,800
Speaker 1: you want to get pretty tight to begin down that

1211
01:06:36,920 --> 01:06:38,880
Speaker 1: last five minutes, and you don't. You may get the

1212
01:06:38,960 --> 01:06:41,920
Speaker 1: ball once more. You only have a chance to recover

1213
01:06:42,080 --> 01:06:46,520
Speaker 1: from a bad call just that much. So that's what

1214
01:06:46,640 --> 01:06:50,240
Speaker 1: you're talking about, And that's that's where you know you

1215
01:06:50,400 --> 01:06:55,760
Speaker 1: don't want a mistake to be You know they're gonna happen,

1216
01:06:55,840 --> 01:06:57,640
Speaker 1: but you don't want them to happen in such a

1217
01:06:57,680 --> 01:06:59,480
Speaker 1: way as that one team or the other can't make

1218
01:06:59,520 --> 01:07:05,520
Speaker 1: it right or recover from it. So you know you're

1219
01:07:05,560 --> 01:07:07,880
Speaker 1: asking for it when you start putting officials in anything,

1220
01:07:09,200 --> 01:07:11,440
Speaker 1: but getting it fast and getting it as close to

1221
01:07:11,560 --> 01:07:15,160
Speaker 1: correct as you can as fast as you can is huge.

1222
01:07:16,640 --> 01:07:18,640
Speaker 1: I think this is I think this is a step

1223
01:07:18,680 --> 01:07:21,560
Speaker 1: in the right direction. I want to agree with the

1224
01:07:21,840 --> 01:07:24,240
Speaker 1: full time stuff. Yeah, so do I. I don't think

1225
01:07:24,240 --> 01:07:30,480
Speaker 1: anybody would dispute that implementing when and how they can intervene,

1226
01:07:31,200 --> 01:07:34,400
Speaker 1: she thinks would be more complicated than people think. And

1227
01:07:34,520 --> 01:07:36,560
Speaker 1: I think the reason she feels that way is because

1228
01:07:37,360 --> 01:07:42,880
Speaker 1: if you give them ultimate autonomy, they could stop the

1229
01:07:42,920 --> 01:07:46,440
Speaker 1: game as often as they want. And then if you

1230
01:07:46,520 --> 01:07:48,120
Speaker 1: try to put a cap on it and say, well,

1231
01:07:48,600 --> 01:07:50,880
Speaker 1: the sky judge can only stop the game ten times,

1232
01:07:51,120 --> 01:07:53,960
Speaker 1: what if that eleventh missed call, not that the last

1233
01:07:54,000 --> 01:07:57,520
Speaker 1: seven in a game conceivably, but in the last two minutes,

1234
01:07:57,520 --> 01:07:59,600
Speaker 1: and it costs the other team that it's like, oh wow,

1235
01:08:00,080 --> 01:08:02,880
Speaker 1: to put a cap on an It's like, I think

1236
01:08:04,600 --> 01:08:09,120
Speaker 1: I think they will do some some deep, deep analysis

1237
01:08:09,680 --> 01:08:15,840
Speaker 1: in terms of how often do egregiously made calls crop

1238
01:08:16,000 --> 01:08:19,719
Speaker 1: up in a game on average one and a half

1239
01:08:20,560 --> 01:08:24,920
Speaker 1: maybe two like really bad, like totally missed, like two

1240
01:08:26,000 --> 01:08:28,640
Speaker 1: maybe three, not even to a game. I think it's like,

1241
01:08:29,520 --> 01:08:31,719
Speaker 1: I think it's like one every two or three weeks.

1242
01:08:31,800 --> 01:08:34,320
Speaker 1: So I think we're talking about some that's going to intervene.

1243
01:08:34,560 --> 01:08:38,720
Speaker 1: There's always maximum three times a game. I mean, think

1244
01:08:38,760 --> 01:08:41,720
Speaker 1: about how much coaches challenge plays. I mean, I know

1245
01:08:41,760 --> 01:08:43,479
Speaker 1: they only have two, they get three if they get

1246
01:08:43,560 --> 01:08:47,439
Speaker 1: both of those right, But I mean we're not it

1247
01:08:47,560 --> 01:08:50,240
Speaker 1: doesn't right come up a lot. So I think I

1248
01:08:50,320 --> 01:08:52,679
Speaker 1: think this sky judge is really only coming into play

1249
01:08:53,640 --> 01:08:57,080
Speaker 1: arguably four times that the most in a game. But

1250
01:08:57,240 --> 01:08:59,360
Speaker 1: that's in And here's the thing too, is again we

1251
01:08:59,400 --> 01:09:02,880
Speaker 1: don't know because we're trying to think on our feet

1252
01:09:02,960 --> 01:09:07,560
Speaker 1: here and sitting down. If he can only intervene on

1253
01:09:07,720 --> 01:09:10,760
Speaker 1: a play in which a penalty is called, that's one thing.

1254
01:09:11,439 --> 01:09:14,840
Speaker 1: It wouldn't have fixed the egregious miscalled three years ago

1255
01:09:14,920 --> 01:09:18,360
Speaker 1: in the NFC Championship game when the Nikhil Roby Coleman

1256
01:09:18,880 --> 01:09:23,280
Speaker 1: for the Rams knocked out Alvin Kamara a half second

1257
01:09:23,320 --> 01:09:26,760
Speaker 1: before the ball arrived. That wouldn't have fixed that because

1258
01:09:26,760 --> 01:09:33,559
Speaker 1: there was no penalty called. That's not gonna get fixed.

1259
01:09:34,600 --> 01:09:37,479
Speaker 1: And also if and also it's it's been stated too

1260
01:09:37,680 --> 01:09:39,439
Speaker 1: that they said they can help with the spotting of

1261
01:09:39,520 --> 01:09:43,760
Speaker 1: the ball or game clock management. So how much time

1262
01:09:43,840 --> 01:09:45,360
Speaker 1: was left on it? You'll have that. He'll have the

1263
01:09:45,479 --> 01:09:47,120
Speaker 1: running clock and you can look on the screen when

1264
01:09:47,160 --> 01:09:50,160
Speaker 1: this happened the clock Look read this, okay, done, you

1265
01:09:50,280 --> 01:09:52,360
Speaker 1: can go back and put seconds back on the clock.

1266
01:09:52,400 --> 01:09:55,080
Speaker 1: Get the clock right down in distance. I mean, what

1267
01:09:55,120 --> 01:10:00,719
Speaker 1: are you gonna tell me? There's only so many ways

1268
01:10:01,479 --> 01:10:07,160
Speaker 1: you can intervene. There are a lot though, there are

1269
01:10:07,200 --> 01:10:09,080
Speaker 1: a lot of ways you can intervene. Now I know,

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Speaker 1: maybe I don't think things that could be called away

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Speaker 1: from the ball are going to be in this person's

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Speaker 1: jurisdiction because that's fool as you could do that on

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Speaker 1: almost every play. Are you only doing it on called penalties? Though?

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Speaker 1: Is interesting because that makes the Nickel Roby Coleman pass

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Speaker 1: interference play a non factor. You can't you can't impact

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Speaker 1: that And is that right? I don't know if that's right.

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Speaker 1: Let me go back here and read a little bit

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Speaker 1: of what Peter King said in his article we can

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Speaker 1: you know? Um? Well you look well you are you

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01:10:42,600 --> 01:10:45,679
Speaker 1: you need a minute to say. Here's what he says.

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01:10:45,760 --> 01:10:48,200
Speaker 1: Right at it. He says, the upstairs official has a

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Speaker 1: direct line of communication with the referee on the field's expected,

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01:10:51,400 --> 01:10:54,360
Speaker 1: and it's expected the replay official will be empowered to

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01:10:54,439 --> 01:10:56,519
Speaker 1: buzz down to the ref to tell the crew chief

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Speaker 1: of an obviously wrong or missed call. Okay, so that

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01:11:04,960 --> 01:11:09,519
Speaker 1: Nickel Robie Coleman pass interference gets flagged by the sky

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Speaker 1: judge conceivably, So now you're different, Yeah, he says, Team

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Speaker 1: A is out of challenges with four minutes left in

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Speaker 1: the game, a completion ruled good on the field is

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Speaker 1: clearly wrong because the receiver had a foot out of bounds.

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01:11:23,680 --> 01:11:25,960
Speaker 1: The replay official buzzes down and the ref and tells

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Speaker 1: him the passes incomplete. And then you know, without that failsafe,

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01:11:30,160 --> 01:11:35,600
Speaker 1: a wrong call could stand. But you know, and and

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Speaker 1: the way he mis call, that's the thing again, what's

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01:11:37,960 --> 01:11:40,240
Speaker 1: he what do you do if you get into a

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01:11:40,320 --> 01:11:41,840
Speaker 1: gray area of like, well, that's a little bit of

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01:11:41,880 --> 01:11:44,519
Speaker 1: a judgment call. And the other part of the way

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01:11:44,560 --> 01:11:47,040
Speaker 1: Peter wrote it there was he drew up a scenario

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Speaker 1: in which the coaches still have their challenge flags. So

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Speaker 1: when does the sky judge step in or step in challenges? Yeah,

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01:11:56,120 --> 01:11:58,040
Speaker 1: when does he step in? Does he step in after

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01:11:58,760 --> 01:12:01,880
Speaker 1: both the coaches are out of chance challenges to argue

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01:12:01,960 --> 01:12:03,920
Speaker 1: something that's been called or the one that's been wronged

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01:12:04,040 --> 01:12:07,640
Speaker 1: is out of challenges one of them. So yeah, so

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01:12:07,720 --> 01:12:10,479
Speaker 1: they can get really convoluted in a hurry. Steve, I'm

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01:12:10,520 --> 01:12:13,200
Speaker 1: telling you, if they put the sky judge in, they

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01:12:13,280 --> 01:12:16,439
Speaker 1: gotta take the challenge flags out of the coach's pockets.

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01:12:16,800 --> 01:12:20,040
Speaker 1: It's gonna get so damn convoluted and bogged down. You

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01:12:20,120 --> 01:12:22,080
Speaker 1: got two coaches that could throw the flag twice in

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01:12:22,120 --> 01:12:24,479
Speaker 1: a game. You've got a sky judge upstairs. I mean,

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01:12:25,000 --> 01:12:27,080
Speaker 1: the poor ref's not gonna know who's calling them. It's

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01:12:27,080 --> 01:12:28,640
Speaker 1: got so many people on the line, you know what

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01:12:28,680 --> 01:12:32,080
Speaker 1: I mean, he's gonna need a switchboard to officiate a game.

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Speaker 1: But I think so, I think though they won't take

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01:12:37,360 --> 01:12:41,360
Speaker 1: those those coaches won't give up those challenges because here's

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01:12:41,479 --> 01:12:45,679
Speaker 1: and here's the reason. You'll get it'll. It'll you'll start

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01:12:45,720 --> 01:12:49,400
Speaker 1: to find out how fast the replay official can look

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01:12:49,439 --> 01:12:51,240
Speaker 1: at a review and look at a catch and call

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01:12:51,320 --> 01:12:54,160
Speaker 1: it good or bad on the sidelines. Yeah, and if

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01:12:54,240 --> 01:12:57,120
Speaker 1: you can't snap it before that guy gets that reviewed,

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01:12:59,160 --> 01:13:02,160
Speaker 1: then you won't. You won't try, right, if you can't

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01:13:02,400 --> 01:13:06,880
Speaker 1: get it done. Yeah, so you can't, like artificially, you will.

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Speaker 1: It will stop giving the teams the ability to artificially

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01:13:10,160 --> 01:13:12,960
Speaker 1: force a team to throw their challenge flag because they're

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Speaker 1: gonna miss the play. Yeah, so that is an extra

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Speaker 1: That is something that will change, I think, And that's interesting,

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Speaker 1: yeah to me. But this is we are. We are

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Speaker 1: on the deepest of the slippery slope. Tiffany On the

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Speaker 1: tweet sheet says, in theory, the sky judge having the

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Speaker 1: ability to overturn obvious miscalls sounds good. I'm wondering the

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Speaker 1: exact extent of authority. She's got the same question that

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Speaker 1: they'll have, and will coaches have the ability to challenge

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Speaker 1: a misscall? It feels like it may have the potential

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01:13:45,439 --> 01:13:47,679
Speaker 1: to slow the game down. That is my greatest fear

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01:13:47,760 --> 01:13:51,559
Speaker 1: with this. Yeah, interesting, do the coaches have the if

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Speaker 1: the if the sky judges got the authority, do the

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Speaker 1: coaches have the same authority to call the sky judge

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01:13:56,840 --> 01:13:59,400
Speaker 1: into question? So, for instance, if the sky judge could

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01:13:59,520 --> 01:14:02,160
Speaker 1: challenge this I judge? Now, yeah right? Why not? Hey?

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01:14:02,880 --> 01:14:06,080
Speaker 1: So oh, I'm saying, not challenge the sky judge. But listen,

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01:14:06,120 --> 01:14:09,280
Speaker 1: if the sky judge can challenge a misscall, why can't

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01:14:09,280 --> 01:14:14,360
Speaker 1: the coaches? Yeah? Misscall? Now, misschallenge? Now, coach challenge? Are

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01:14:14,400 --> 01:14:17,439
Speaker 1: open to miscall? No penalty, cold at all. I'm gonna

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01:14:17,520 --> 01:14:22,000
Speaker 1: challenge it like my quarterback just got clocked in the

1345
01:14:22,080 --> 01:14:25,120
Speaker 1: head and you missed it. For all that that should

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01:14:25,120 --> 01:14:27,519
Speaker 1: be fifteen You're like the Super Bowl Pat Mahomes he

1347
01:14:27,680 --> 01:14:30,320
Speaker 1: throws that ball going down and in Dominican suit comes

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01:14:30,400 --> 01:14:31,960
Speaker 1: by with his hand whacks him in the side of

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01:14:32,000 --> 01:14:33,439
Speaker 1: the head. Oh, I'll do you one better. How about

1350
01:14:33,520 --> 01:14:35,560
Speaker 1: Chris Smith punching John Feliciano in the head. Do you

1351
01:14:35,600 --> 01:14:40,280
Speaker 1: miss that? Bingo guy should be ejected throw the challenge fla.

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01:14:42,600 --> 01:14:48,600
Speaker 1: Why not they miss that? It's interesting, that's think about it.

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01:14:48,720 --> 01:14:52,360
Speaker 1: It is getting juicy here. I like, hey, we'll have

1354
01:14:52,479 --> 01:14:55,519
Speaker 1: this game. We'll have this game. Oh my gosh, but

1355
01:14:56,200 --> 01:14:59,240
Speaker 1: the game is gonna be an absolute shadow. Game will

1356
01:14:59,280 --> 01:15:02,439
Speaker 1: be four to hours long. But we'll get it right,

1357
01:15:03,240 --> 01:15:07,719
Speaker 1: we'll get it. Sunday's one pm kickoff should conclude Monday

1358
01:15:10,240 --> 01:15:13,080
Speaker 1: instead of four or four twenty five. Man oh man,

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01:15:13,200 --> 01:15:14,600
Speaker 1: all right, we have to take a break. When we

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01:15:14,680 --> 01:15:16,439
Speaker 1: come back, more of your comments on the tweet sheet

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01:15:16,479 --> 01:15:18,559
Speaker 1: and your calls at eight oh three, five fifty Joe

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01:15:18,600 --> 01:15:20,600
Speaker 1: and Rochester hang on. You'll be first up after the

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Speaker 1: break when we return. Here on one Bill's Live, presented

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Speaker 1: by Kalida Health, it's Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome back to

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01:15:37,280 --> 01:15:40,879
Speaker 1: Keystone Cops. Here on one Bills Live, Steve is adjusting

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01:15:40,960 --> 01:15:43,240
Speaker 1: his microphone and his whole set up at his desk.

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01:15:43,360 --> 01:15:47,160
Speaker 1: He's got two points, He's got two wireless mice floating

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01:15:47,200 --> 01:15:52,519
Speaker 1: around with a laptop and a key surface and he's

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01:15:52,600 --> 01:15:55,640
Speaker 1: trying to get settled here halfway through the show, And

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01:15:55,720 --> 01:15:58,240
Speaker 1: I gotta tell you it is as entertaining as hell

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01:15:59,280 --> 01:16:02,240
Speaker 1: watching you sc amble here. I gotta wait till last

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01:16:02,320 --> 01:16:05,960
Speaker 1: thirty seconds of the break before your timing is impeccable.

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01:16:06,080 --> 01:16:08,280
Speaker 1: All right, here we go. But we are talking about

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01:16:08,560 --> 01:16:12,519
Speaker 1: the likely implementation by the League of a sky judge,

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01:16:13,040 --> 01:16:16,200
Speaker 1: where the replay official who sits upstairs at every NFL

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01:16:16,320 --> 01:16:20,080
Speaker 1: game in the stadium will now have the authority to

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01:16:20,200 --> 01:16:26,519
Speaker 1: overrule poorly made calls or missed calls entirely, at least

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01:16:26,560 --> 01:16:30,559
Speaker 1: according to the wording by one Peter King from NBC Sports,

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01:16:30,560 --> 01:16:32,639
Speaker 1: who will be joining us in about twenty five minutes

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01:16:32,960 --> 01:16:34,960
Speaker 1: here on the show to elaborate on it. So we

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01:16:35,000 --> 01:16:37,640
Speaker 1: want to know where you stand on the implementation of

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01:16:37,920 --> 01:16:41,160
Speaker 1: a sky judge to overrule calls on the field. Eight

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01:16:41,240 --> 01:16:42,960
Speaker 1: oh three, oh five fifty the number to get on

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01:16:43,040 --> 01:16:45,680
Speaker 1: board taking your phone calls now, And as promised, we

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01:16:45,760 --> 01:16:48,760
Speaker 1: go to Joe in Rochester. Joe, what do you have

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01:16:48,880 --> 01:16:52,600
Speaker 1: for the discussion today? You're on one Bills Live. Well, unfortunately,

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01:16:52,600 --> 01:16:55,960
Speaker 1: I've fought about this way too much. Join the club

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01:16:56,120 --> 01:16:57,920
Speaker 1: back to the It goes all the way back to

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01:16:58,000 --> 01:17:03,200
Speaker 1: the John Brown days of or Not. John used to say,

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01:17:03,280 --> 01:17:05,240
Speaker 1: I hate instant replay. I wish they would take it

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01:17:05,280 --> 01:17:09,720
Speaker 1: away and a discussion. Right. So I'm the opposite way.

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01:17:09,840 --> 01:17:12,320
Speaker 1: I not only think the sky judge isn't a bad idea,

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01:17:13,120 --> 01:17:16,640
Speaker 1: but I have a theory going forward years forward that

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Speaker 1: I have questions for you guys on your opinions on.

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01:17:19,439 --> 01:17:21,360
Speaker 1: So first of all, I agree with your caller on

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01:17:21,439 --> 01:17:25,800
Speaker 1: consistency that should be paramount. And yes, the sky judge

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01:17:25,800 --> 01:17:29,200
Speaker 1: would have to not only be able to be involved

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01:17:29,240 --> 01:17:33,360
Speaker 1: in replays, but then involved in missed calls on the

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01:17:33,479 --> 01:17:36,640
Speaker 1: same play. The two questions, or the two problems with

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01:17:36,760 --> 01:17:40,200
Speaker 1: that I see are how long does the sky judge

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01:17:40,320 --> 01:17:44,519
Speaker 1: have right? So you throw it past the past looks

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01:17:44,520 --> 01:17:46,560
Speaker 1: like a first down, everybody is scrambling up to the

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01:17:46,600 --> 01:17:50,599
Speaker 1: line for the first down, and then that judge now

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01:17:50,760 --> 01:17:52,519
Speaker 1: makes it No, I was a drop pass. It's a

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01:17:52,600 --> 01:17:55,120
Speaker 1: third and fifteen, not a first down. Do they have

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01:17:55,240 --> 01:17:59,080
Speaker 1: the right to stop it while the players are getting

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01:17:59,080 --> 01:18:00,960
Speaker 1: off the ground and the balls being reset, or do

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01:18:01,000 --> 01:18:03,719
Speaker 1: they have the ability to stop it right up until

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01:18:03,760 --> 01:18:07,760
Speaker 1: the snap. The second part of that is, you know,

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01:18:07,880 --> 01:18:11,920
Speaker 1: you guys mentioned the Robie Elvin Kamara play or I

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01:18:12,120 --> 01:18:16,479
Speaker 1: was thinking of the Lattimore Digs miraculous touchdown in the

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01:18:16,560 --> 01:18:20,400
Speaker 1: one game. Can you imagine that touchdown from Diggs being

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01:18:20,479 --> 01:18:23,439
Speaker 1: a touchdown? And then the sky judge comes up and goes, now,

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01:18:23,520 --> 01:18:25,960
Speaker 1: there was actually a hold from the guard back here,

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01:18:26,640 --> 01:18:29,880
Speaker 1: you know, twenty eight yards away from the play that

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01:18:30,080 --> 01:18:34,440
Speaker 1: would probably have caused people to have revolted in Minnesota.

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01:18:35,120 --> 01:18:38,439
Speaker 1: So that's one thing where I was going with it

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01:18:38,680 --> 01:18:41,840
Speaker 1: in future years is I've always kind of wondered with

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01:18:42,160 --> 01:18:45,479
Speaker 1: the advent and replay and you know, the network is

1420
01:18:45,560 --> 01:18:49,360
Speaker 1: going to show a missed call twenty eight times from

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01:18:49,520 --> 01:18:53,560
Speaker 1: thirteen different angles, from six different cameras. Why doesn't the

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01:18:53,720 --> 01:18:56,720
Speaker 1: NFL look at a system where you have less officials

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01:18:56,760 --> 01:19:00,240
Speaker 1: on the field but more officials in the sky that

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01:19:00,360 --> 01:19:04,439
Speaker 1: are looking at the play from say three different camera

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01:19:04,520 --> 01:19:07,680
Speaker 1: angles and I'm only looking at the offensive line or

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01:19:08,000 --> 01:19:10,439
Speaker 1: three different camera angles and I'm only looking at the

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01:19:10,520 --> 01:19:15,840
Speaker 1: defensive backs. And my logic there is and Steve talked

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01:19:15,840 --> 01:19:19,320
Speaker 1: about it a little bit earlier. Most people don't understand

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01:19:19,400 --> 01:19:21,880
Speaker 1: the speed of the field on the play and if

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01:19:21,960 --> 01:19:25,439
Speaker 1: I'm an official, I'm trying to look at the feet

1431
01:19:25,600 --> 01:19:27,960
Speaker 1: inbounds and that kind of stuff, But I'm also looking

1432
01:19:28,000 --> 01:19:31,240
Speaker 1: at not being run over by a linebacker, and I'm

1433
01:19:31,320 --> 01:19:33,839
Speaker 1: trying to sprint with a twenty six year old receiver,

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01:19:34,479 --> 01:19:37,479
Speaker 1: and I'm doing all this other stuff. If you put

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01:19:37,600 --> 01:19:40,760
Speaker 1: more officials in a box that are looking at it

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01:19:41,200 --> 01:19:44,320
Speaker 1: from three angles, they would not only be able to

1437
01:19:44,760 --> 01:19:47,799
Speaker 1: look at the play, but spin it back five seconds

1438
01:19:47,840 --> 01:19:50,000
Speaker 1: and look at it again from another camera angle and

1439
01:19:50,120 --> 01:19:52,920
Speaker 1: confirm it was in fact a hold. It wasn't a hold,

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01:19:53,000 --> 01:19:55,400
Speaker 1: it was past interference. No, he did grab a shirt,

1441
01:19:55,439 --> 01:19:59,200
Speaker 1: he didn't grab a shirt. It seems like consistency would

1442
01:19:59,240 --> 01:20:04,240
Speaker 1: be better using the technology more than less. All Right,

1443
01:20:04,360 --> 01:20:07,400
Speaker 1: A lot to unpack there, Joe, But we're happy to

1444
01:20:07,439 --> 01:20:09,960
Speaker 1: try to answer as many of those with opinions as

1445
01:20:10,040 --> 01:20:12,240
Speaker 1: we can, because I don't think we have cold hard

1446
01:20:12,280 --> 01:20:15,559
Speaker 1: facts with all of those. The time limit, let's start there.

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01:20:15,680 --> 01:20:18,640
Speaker 1: Time limit for a sky judge. As Joe pointed out,

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01:20:18,680 --> 01:20:21,800
Speaker 1: I'm envisioning some team behind on the scoreboard. They're in

1449
01:20:21,840 --> 01:20:23,720
Speaker 1: a hurry up at the end of the game. It

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01:20:23,880 --> 01:20:25,880
Speaker 1: looks like they got the first down. They're hurrying up

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01:20:25,880 --> 01:20:28,080
Speaker 1: to the line to run the next play. Can the

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01:20:28,160 --> 01:20:31,280
Speaker 1: sky judge make a determination before they do? And if

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01:20:31,320 --> 01:20:33,320
Speaker 1: he can't, do you keep on playing? I think you do.

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01:20:33,720 --> 01:20:36,599
Speaker 1: If he can't buzz down in time, right, Yeah, if

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01:20:36,840 --> 01:20:38,760
Speaker 1: you can't, If you don't know in the pace of

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01:20:38,800 --> 01:20:40,560
Speaker 1: the game, and you can't buzz down to stop it,

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01:20:40,600 --> 01:20:42,400
Speaker 1: you're not gonna stop it. Wait, everything in this say

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01:20:42,439 --> 01:20:44,519
Speaker 1: oh yeah, okay, let's go ahead, go ahead. You know,

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01:20:45,040 --> 01:20:46,800
Speaker 1: that's an undue advantage for the team with the ball,

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01:20:46,840 --> 01:20:48,880
Speaker 1: because it gives them a chance to breathe gives them

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01:20:48,920 --> 01:20:51,240
Speaker 1: a chance to get coached up, gives them a chance

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01:20:51,280 --> 01:20:54,720
Speaker 1: to call a perfect play or a better play than

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01:20:54,800 --> 01:20:59,599
Speaker 1: the one they just had called. Offensively. Yeah, it's it's

1464
01:21:00,720 --> 01:21:03,080
Speaker 1: it's an advantage for one team, the team with the ball,

1465
01:21:03,200 --> 01:21:05,599
Speaker 1: or the team that whichever team needs the ball needs

1466
01:21:05,680 --> 01:21:10,120
Speaker 1: the delay to happen. So, um, there is that. And

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01:21:10,880 --> 01:21:16,680
Speaker 1: as far as officiating the game from video rather than

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01:21:16,880 --> 01:21:20,880
Speaker 1: on the field, that's a big leap. You still have

1469
01:21:20,960 --> 01:21:22,800
Speaker 1: to have guys to spot the ball, and you still

1470
01:21:22,880 --> 01:21:25,280
Speaker 1: have to have guys who you know break up fights.

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01:21:25,360 --> 01:21:28,560
Speaker 1: You still have to have guys who, um you know,

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01:21:29,040 --> 01:21:33,200
Speaker 1: measure for first downs, all that stuff. Blow the play dead,

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01:21:33,520 --> 01:21:36,439
Speaker 1: blow the play live, start the ball, start to play,

1474
01:21:36,520 --> 01:21:39,880
Speaker 1: start the play clocks, reset the game clock clock. You

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01:21:39,920 --> 01:21:43,200
Speaker 1: still have to have guys do that, so you can't

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01:21:43,240 --> 01:21:48,040
Speaker 1: take guys off the field completely, obviously. Um, I don't know.

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01:21:48,720 --> 01:21:52,800
Speaker 1: It's you. You're way out ahead of me on having

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01:21:52,920 --> 01:21:56,719
Speaker 1: guys officiate the game from video. Yeah, that is way

1479
01:21:56,880 --> 01:21:59,920
Speaker 1: down the line. I think that's further away than weeks.

1480
01:22:00,000 --> 01:22:03,800
Speaker 1: I think that. To me, that's a I get it.

1481
01:22:03,960 --> 01:22:06,120
Speaker 1: I get the premise, but that is a long leap

1482
01:22:06,400 --> 01:22:09,719
Speaker 1: for me. Um. And if it's a long leap for Steve,

1483
01:22:09,800 --> 01:22:11,599
Speaker 1: imagine how big of a leap it is for owners.

1484
01:22:12,400 --> 01:22:16,360
Speaker 1: Yeah you know what I mean. Um, and even for players,

1485
01:22:16,400 --> 01:22:18,559
Speaker 1: because if a player gets called for a penalty, he'll

1486
01:22:18,680 --> 01:22:21,160
Speaker 1: say what he a lot of guys, what did I do?

1487
01:22:21,280 --> 01:22:23,120
Speaker 1: Where was my hand? Your your your hand was on

1488
01:22:23,240 --> 01:22:25,839
Speaker 1: the outside of his shoulder, or you had a handful

1489
01:22:25,840 --> 01:22:28,240
Speaker 1: of jersey when he was outside the frame of your body.

1490
01:22:28,600 --> 01:22:31,080
Speaker 1: So the guy can get you can get why it

1491
01:22:31,200 --> 01:22:33,680
Speaker 1: was a penalty, and you know know that you're not

1492
01:22:33,680 --> 01:22:38,840
Speaker 1: supposed to do that next time. Um yeah, I And

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01:22:39,000 --> 01:22:41,720
Speaker 1: then you wouldn't be And here's another thing. If you

1494
01:22:41,840 --> 01:22:46,040
Speaker 1: have guys up in the booth doing the game. Who's

1495
01:22:46,080 --> 01:22:51,240
Speaker 1: throwing the flag? So there's you know, I don't know,

1496
01:22:51,920 --> 01:22:55,000
Speaker 1: how do you how do you know? Um, we're coming

1497
01:22:55,080 --> 01:22:58,439
Speaker 1: across some extra layers of the onion here, still right, Yeah,

1498
01:22:58,600 --> 01:23:00,800
Speaker 1: I get it. It's all a getting it right and

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01:23:00,920 --> 01:23:05,320
Speaker 1: consistent getting it right as fast and consistently as you can. Um.

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01:23:06,320 --> 01:23:08,800
Speaker 1: But they're if you're gonna go down that road and

1501
01:23:09,000 --> 01:23:12,280
Speaker 1: having guys do officiate the game by watching it up

1502
01:23:12,360 --> 01:23:18,639
Speaker 1: close on video instead of standing right there watching it. Yeah,

1503
01:23:18,680 --> 01:23:20,639
Speaker 1: I don't think he gained that much because these guys.

1504
01:23:20,680 --> 01:23:22,960
Speaker 1: I mean, let's face it, these guys watch thousand plays

1505
01:23:23,160 --> 01:23:25,519
Speaker 1: a year. I mean, they get a lot of reps

1506
01:23:25,560 --> 01:23:27,720
Speaker 1: watching it. They know what they're looking at. They're very

1507
01:23:27,800 --> 01:23:30,280
Speaker 1: good at it, So don't I don't. Don't. Every time

1508
01:23:30,280 --> 01:23:33,559
Speaker 1: we get into this officials talk and I laugh at myself,

1509
01:23:33,680 --> 01:23:35,479
Speaker 1: you know, for being so hard on him when I played,

1510
01:23:35,560 --> 01:23:39,160
Speaker 1: and even now. But they're really good at what they

1511
01:23:39,240 --> 01:23:42,000
Speaker 1: do and it's a hard job. Yeah, they're really good,

1512
01:23:42,360 --> 01:23:47,040
Speaker 1: and they don't and they officials do not stink. They

1513
01:23:47,439 --> 01:23:52,120
Speaker 1: they're good. They don't suck. They do a hard job

1514
01:23:52,160 --> 01:23:54,240
Speaker 1: and they do it really well. And every time you

1515
01:23:54,320 --> 01:23:57,120
Speaker 1: get into this situation where we're gonna do replay, we'renna

1516
01:23:57,120 --> 01:23:58,880
Speaker 1: have a sky official because you act like it like

1517
01:23:58,960 --> 01:24:01,200
Speaker 1: we're just talking about you act. It happens every single play.

1518
01:24:01,479 --> 01:24:03,080
Speaker 1: And the simple fact of the matter is this last

1519
01:24:03,160 --> 01:24:05,000
Speaker 1: year they didn't call very many penalties. We all liked

1520
01:24:05,040 --> 01:24:09,439
Speaker 1: it better. So now let's you know, let's pump the

1521
01:24:09,479 --> 01:24:12,880
Speaker 1: brakes on revamping something that's really not broken. Let's go

1522
01:24:12,960 --> 01:24:15,960
Speaker 1: back to the phones and we go to Max in Buffalo. Max,

1523
01:24:16,040 --> 01:24:18,840
Speaker 1: what do you have for us? You're on One Bill's Live. Hey,

1524
01:24:18,920 --> 01:24:22,280
Speaker 1: thanks for taking my call. I was going to share

1525
01:24:22,360 --> 01:24:25,800
Speaker 1: that that this, uh, this format is used in most

1526
01:24:25,840 --> 01:24:29,240
Speaker 1: of the major rugby program or leagues around the world,

1527
01:24:29,320 --> 01:24:32,479
Speaker 1: called the television match official. And the nice part is

1528
01:24:32,600 --> 01:24:35,680
Speaker 1: that they always get the calls right. Um, even though

1529
01:24:35,720 --> 01:24:38,479
Speaker 1: that ends up you know, disappointing things that are found

1530
01:24:38,520 --> 01:24:40,880
Speaker 1: on the margins and the last collar brought up that.

1531
01:24:41,000 --> 01:24:43,559
Speaker 1: The biggest issue, of course, is that they go all

1532
01:24:43,600 --> 01:24:45,479
Speaker 1: the way back to that you know, could have been

1533
01:24:45,520 --> 01:24:47,840
Speaker 1: a hold on a long bomb. So those are the

1534
01:24:47,880 --> 01:24:50,160
Speaker 1: big issues. But what I really wanted to share was

1535
01:24:50,800 --> 01:24:53,360
Speaker 1: as a viewer, as a fan of my favorite part

1536
01:24:53,479 --> 01:24:56,080
Speaker 1: is that you get to listen to the dialogue between

1537
01:24:56,560 --> 01:25:00,719
Speaker 1: the officials that are on the field and the officials

1538
01:25:00,760 --> 01:25:03,080
Speaker 1: that are in the booth and hear their thought processes

1539
01:25:03,160 --> 01:25:05,160
Speaker 1: they go through it. And if they could provide that

1540
01:25:05,280 --> 01:25:07,840
Speaker 1: level of transparency in the NFL, I think that would

1541
01:25:07,920 --> 01:25:12,240
Speaker 1: really satisfy a lot more of the viewers. Yeah, I

1542
01:25:13,000 --> 01:25:15,679
Speaker 1: get it, And thanks for bringing that up about rugby.

1543
01:25:15,720 --> 01:25:19,640
Speaker 1: I was unaware of that. That's actually good news that

1544
01:25:19,760 --> 01:25:21,880
Speaker 1: it exists in some other format. Maybe it's something that

1545
01:25:21,960 --> 01:25:24,240
Speaker 1: the league can take a close look at to see

1546
01:25:24,280 --> 01:25:25,920
Speaker 1: how they implement it. I think it would be really

1547
01:25:26,000 --> 01:25:28,599
Speaker 1: insightful for an instructive for a lot of the fans

1548
01:25:29,040 --> 01:25:31,800
Speaker 1: to hear those conversations. And I've said it a number

1549
01:25:31,800 --> 01:25:34,479
Speaker 1: of times. I've during my days with CBS doing games

1550
01:25:34,520 --> 01:25:36,600
Speaker 1: in the booth, we would get to the airport and

1551
01:25:36,640 --> 01:25:38,680
Speaker 1: the officials are all they're flying out on the same

1552
01:25:38,720 --> 01:25:41,719
Speaker 1: flights we are, and we would have conversations with about

1553
01:25:41,720 --> 01:25:43,519
Speaker 1: their game, how they felt about the game, how we

1554
01:25:43,720 --> 01:25:45,559
Speaker 1: what we said about a call they had, and they'd

1555
01:25:45,600 --> 01:25:47,400
Speaker 1: go back, well, we reviewed that, what you guys say

1556
01:25:47,439 --> 01:25:49,360
Speaker 1: And I said, well, we said this, and we thought

1557
01:25:49,439 --> 01:25:50,559
Speaker 1: this and this and this and you know, and they

1558
01:25:50,600 --> 01:25:53,599
Speaker 1: said yeah, and we were. They're great dudes, and they

1559
01:25:53,800 --> 01:25:57,920
Speaker 1: really prose and to listen to them talked, and our

1560
01:25:58,000 --> 01:26:00,720
Speaker 1: conversations with them and their conversation with each other and

1561
01:26:00,840 --> 01:26:05,120
Speaker 1: what they thought and was really enlightening. It was really

1562
01:26:05,240 --> 01:26:09,680
Speaker 1: enlightening because officials, if you've ever had a conversation with

1563
01:26:10,040 --> 01:26:13,800
Speaker 1: any of these guys, it will blow your mind how

1564
01:26:13,920 --> 01:26:17,840
Speaker 1: differently they view the game. I mean, it's it's like

1565
01:26:18,200 --> 01:26:21,240
Speaker 1: you were looking at what you were thinking. What it's

1566
01:26:21,280 --> 01:26:24,400
Speaker 1: like they are looking at it from a completely different

1567
01:26:24,520 --> 01:26:29,920
Speaker 1: perspective than anybody else does. And it's really instructive and

1568
01:26:30,120 --> 01:26:33,920
Speaker 1: helpful when you hear them talk about it what they're thinking,

1569
01:26:35,160 --> 01:26:39,920
Speaker 1: and it's really and it's like it's really it's comforting

1570
01:26:40,560 --> 01:26:45,080
Speaker 1: to know that they got it really good and they

1571
01:26:45,160 --> 01:26:47,080
Speaker 1: don't they have and believe me, and I know I've

1572
01:26:47,160 --> 01:26:50,280
Speaker 1: said a thousand things to the contrary. They don't care.

1573
01:26:50,479 --> 01:26:52,200
Speaker 1: They don't care who went, they don't care this, they

1574
01:26:52,240 --> 01:26:54,240
Speaker 1: don't care what color jersey the guy's got on. They

1575
01:26:54,240 --> 01:26:57,200
Speaker 1: don't care this guy, that guy. They're just talking strictly,

1576
01:26:57,360 --> 01:27:01,200
Speaker 1: dispassionately about what was going on with hands, feet and

1577
01:27:01,320 --> 01:27:04,360
Speaker 1: body position and all of that. Yeah, that's all they

1578
01:27:04,479 --> 01:27:06,840
Speaker 1: care about it, and it's pretty pretty instructive. So it's

1579
01:27:07,160 --> 01:27:09,040
Speaker 1: they're really a lot better than they get credit for,

1580
01:27:09,200 --> 01:27:14,000
Speaker 1: particularly whenever you start trying to finger quote fix the

1581
01:27:14,160 --> 01:27:17,680
Speaker 1: NFL officiating, because it's there's not too much wrong with it.

1582
01:27:18,120 --> 01:27:20,960
Speaker 1: The problem is every little mistake if you feel like

1583
01:27:21,000 --> 01:27:25,240
Speaker 1: it's an injustice to society, right, everybody cares too much

1584
01:27:25,640 --> 01:27:27,960
Speaker 1: break time for us. We should mention that it is

1585
01:27:28,040 --> 01:27:30,439
Speaker 1: now official. The Bills have confirmed that they've agreed to

1586
01:27:30,600 --> 01:27:34,160
Speaker 1: terms with wide receiver Isaiah McKenzie on a one year contract.

1587
01:27:34,240 --> 01:27:37,639
Speaker 1: So Little Dirty, as his teammates call umn is back

1588
01:27:37,680 --> 01:27:40,600
Speaker 1: in the fold for the twenty twenty one season. So

1589
01:27:40,840 --> 01:27:43,479
Speaker 1: there's that. But we'll be back to discuss more about

1590
01:27:43,520 --> 01:27:46,840
Speaker 1: this sky judge, and looks like it's going to be

1591
01:27:46,920 --> 01:27:49,920
Speaker 1: in for twenty twenty one if the owners have the

1592
01:27:50,000 --> 01:27:53,719
Speaker 1: majority that everybody's anticipating they will to approve it. Daniel

1593
01:27:53,760 --> 01:27:55,439
Speaker 1: and West Seneca will get to you next here on

1594
01:27:55,479 --> 01:28:07,600
Speaker 1: One Bills Live Back in a sec Welcome back to

1595
01:28:07,640 --> 01:28:10,000
Speaker 1: one Bills Live. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you. Does

1596
01:28:10,040 --> 01:28:12,800
Speaker 1: the NFL need a sky judge to overrule calls on

1597
01:28:12,920 --> 01:28:15,120
Speaker 1: the field. That's the topic on the table. You let

1598
01:28:15,200 --> 01:28:17,400
Speaker 1: us know if you'd like to see it, if you're

1599
01:28:17,439 --> 01:28:21,440
Speaker 1: not sure or hell no, no more layers of officiating

1600
01:28:21,560 --> 01:28:24,080
Speaker 1: for you. Give us a call. Eight oh three oh

1601
01:28:24,200 --> 01:28:26,280
Speaker 1: five fifty. We go back to the phones and we

1602
01:28:26,400 --> 01:28:29,800
Speaker 1: go to Daniel in West Seneca. Daniel, you're on one

1603
01:28:29,880 --> 01:28:32,560
Speaker 1: bills live. What do you got? Yeah, thanks, thanks for

1604
01:28:32,760 --> 01:28:36,840
Speaker 1: accepting the call. Um, Yeah, I'm I'm off for the

1605
01:28:37,520 --> 01:28:41,880
Speaker 1: sky judge. The thing that concerns me is I think

1606
01:28:41,960 --> 01:28:46,080
Speaker 1: that you have to have a time limit and how

1607
01:28:46,160 --> 01:28:53,519
Speaker 1: quickly they're gonna chime in it's um, I mean, it's

1608
01:28:53,560 --> 01:28:57,080
Speaker 1: gonna be a situation that if it's not If they

1609
01:28:57,120 --> 01:29:00,879
Speaker 1: don't have that time limit, I mean the game already,

1610
01:29:01,560 --> 01:29:05,680
Speaker 1: um at like when the bill score touched down, you

1611
01:29:05,760 --> 01:29:07,599
Speaker 1: sit there and you say, oh was that? Was there

1612
01:29:07,640 --> 01:29:09,880
Speaker 1: a flag? And you're you're waiting and you're waiting saying, oh,

1613
01:29:09,960 --> 01:29:19,439
Speaker 1: hopefully there's no flake. Um, you'll be living with that constantly. Offensive. Yeah, yeah,

1614
01:29:19,479 --> 01:29:23,360
Speaker 1: if you don't have that kind of time limitation, right right,

1615
01:29:23,760 --> 01:29:26,120
Speaker 1: that's a good point, Daniel, appreciate the ball on that

1616
01:29:26,400 --> 01:29:32,040
Speaker 1: they probably, I mean, there will be a a time

1617
01:29:32,120 --> 01:29:33,880
Speaker 1: limit ought to be right, even if it's just the

1618
01:29:33,960 --> 01:29:37,320
Speaker 1: play clock, even if the guy's got total autonomy until

1619
01:29:37,479 --> 01:29:40,600
Speaker 1: he'll I know this, once the ball snapped on the

1620
01:29:40,680 --> 01:29:43,280
Speaker 1: next play, there ain't no going back. They'll never do that. No,

1621
01:29:44,040 --> 01:29:46,720
Speaker 1: uh so, at very at the very least, it's the

1622
01:29:46,760 --> 01:29:50,840
Speaker 1: play clock. Now if he stops it and says, hey,

1623
01:29:50,920 --> 01:29:53,680
Speaker 1: you miss it. Now this we all act like this

1624
01:29:53,840 --> 01:29:58,439
Speaker 1: is gonna happen every single play. It's not. No, they're not.

1625
01:29:58,600 --> 01:30:01,880
Speaker 1: The guy's not gonna like fudge around with the spot.

1626
01:30:01,960 --> 01:30:04,599
Speaker 1: You know, they convert a first down first down by

1627
01:30:04,680 --> 01:30:06,439
Speaker 1: three yards and maybe they didn't give him the last

1628
01:30:06,479 --> 01:30:08,840
Speaker 1: half yards, or maybe they gave him an extra half yard.

1629
01:30:09,080 --> 01:30:11,760
Speaker 1: They're not gonna do that. If the guy got the

1630
01:30:11,800 --> 01:30:14,680
Speaker 1: first down, let it go. If there's a question as

1631
01:30:14,680 --> 01:30:16,960
Speaker 1: to whether he got the first down and they're gonna

1632
01:30:17,000 --> 01:30:21,200
Speaker 1: give it to him, yeah, maybe or maybe it. Maybe

1633
01:30:21,200 --> 01:30:24,000
Speaker 1: it'll streamline the process by saying, hey, I don't think

1634
01:30:24,040 --> 01:30:26,080
Speaker 1: he got it. I'm gonna mark him short. And if

1635
01:30:26,120 --> 01:30:28,960
Speaker 1: the replay official upstairs goes, ah, he might have gotten it,

1636
01:30:29,560 --> 01:30:31,640
Speaker 1: we're gonna review it and it let's review it, or no,

1637
01:30:31,840 --> 01:30:35,479
Speaker 1: give him the first down, then you gotta it's better

1638
01:30:36,000 --> 01:30:38,679
Speaker 1: because the sky just is no, no, he was short

1639
01:30:38,720 --> 01:30:41,280
Speaker 1: of the first down markets short, it's gonna be fourth

1640
01:30:41,360 --> 01:30:44,360
Speaker 1: and a half or fourth and six inches. So that

1641
01:30:44,760 --> 01:30:47,040
Speaker 1: may give you a chance to say, okay, it's a

1642
01:30:47,040 --> 01:30:49,360
Speaker 1: little faster that way. I hadn't thought about that though.

1643
01:30:49,479 --> 01:30:52,800
Speaker 1: That you know, no longer are you just looking for

1644
01:30:52,920 --> 01:30:54,880
Speaker 1: a flag out on the field when you know it's

1645
01:30:54,920 --> 01:30:57,439
Speaker 1: a play that could hurt your team. Now you have

1646
01:30:57,520 --> 01:31:01,320
Speaker 1: the added consternation of, well, the ref on the field

1647
01:31:01,360 --> 01:31:04,599
Speaker 1: didn't see it, so we're good there. Now that you're

1648
01:31:04,640 --> 01:31:07,760
Speaker 1: worried about layer two. Oh maybe this guy judge thought,

1649
01:31:07,840 --> 01:31:10,280
Speaker 1: oh crap, he's watching the replay. We may not gonna

1650
01:31:10,280 --> 01:31:12,720
Speaker 1: have binoculars looking for where that guy is up in

1651
01:31:12,760 --> 01:31:16,000
Speaker 1: the booth. Does he always looking at it, always buzzing him?

1652
01:31:16,040 --> 01:31:23,360
Speaker 1: We're screwed, you know. Oh gosh, an extra layer of panic. Yeah,

1653
01:31:23,920 --> 01:31:26,320
Speaker 1: it could be part of it. But that might help

1654
01:31:27,439 --> 01:31:30,360
Speaker 1: on first down spots out about you know, obviously catch

1655
01:31:30,439 --> 01:31:33,000
Speaker 1: non catch in battle you want to cut it though.

1656
01:31:33,240 --> 01:31:36,760
Speaker 1: That's the thing like we're already talking about, according to

1657
01:31:36,840 --> 01:31:38,800
Speaker 1: Peter's column, and we'll talk to him next year after

1658
01:31:38,880 --> 01:31:44,479
Speaker 1: this break, we're already talking about missed calls. So non calls.

1659
01:31:44,600 --> 01:31:48,960
Speaker 1: We're talking about those, yeah, and we're talking about poorly officiated.

1660
01:31:50,560 --> 01:31:52,040
Speaker 1: We'll do that when we come back. We have to

1661
01:31:52,080 --> 01:31:54,240
Speaker 1: take a break now, but when we return, it is

1662
01:31:54,280 --> 01:31:57,040
Speaker 1: Peter King from NBC Sports and his Football Morning in

1663
01:31:57,040 --> 01:32:00,200
Speaker 1: America column. He's the guy that broke this story that

1664
01:32:00,320 --> 01:32:04,240
Speaker 1: this will go before ownership early next week. What comes

1665
01:32:04,360 --> 01:32:07,760
Speaker 1: of it? How many layers are there to it? We'll

1666
01:32:07,800 --> 01:32:10,680
Speaker 1: see if Peter can elaborate on that for us, as

1667
01:32:10,720 --> 01:32:14,000
Speaker 1: well as discussed some Bills free agency with him. Next

1668
01:32:14,080 --> 01:32:16,439
Speaker 1: on One Bills Live presented by Kalida Health, It's Buffalo

1669
01:32:16,520 --> 01:32:34,559
Speaker 1: Bill's radio at a Steve Tasker who has been all

1670
01:32:34,720 --> 01:32:36,720
Speaker 1: over the fields. Kind of unique. He was kind of

1671
01:32:36,720 --> 01:32:43,400
Speaker 1: a dual roll thunder Steve Steve a blimp. We're not

1672
01:32:43,520 --> 01:32:49,120
Speaker 1: even in the strated behere of normalcy. Is our number

1673
01:32:49,160 --> 01:32:51,599
Speaker 1: three of a Tuesday edition of One Bills Live. Chris Brown.

1674
01:32:51,640 --> 01:32:54,800
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker with you and joining us on the line

1675
01:32:54,880 --> 01:32:58,080
Speaker 1: right now from NBC Sports. You read his Football Morning

1676
01:32:58,080 --> 01:33:01,639
Speaker 1: in America column every single month day. It is Peter

1677
01:33:01,800 --> 01:33:04,280
Speaker 1: King joining us on the line, and Peter, good to

1678
01:33:04,320 --> 01:33:08,120
Speaker 1: see your well, how are things down downstate? As they

1679
01:33:08,200 --> 01:33:14,160
Speaker 1: say up here? Everything is going well. Uh. I'd like

1680
01:33:14,400 --> 01:33:19,280
Speaker 1: the offseason to begin at some point, but nothing ever

1681
01:33:19,400 --> 01:33:22,800
Speaker 1: seems to slow down very much in the NFL. So now,

1682
01:33:22,920 --> 01:33:24,960
Speaker 1: but everything is going well down here. Good to be

1683
01:33:25,080 --> 01:33:27,400
Speaker 1: with you, guys. Yeah, the last time we spoke to

1684
01:33:27,439 --> 01:33:30,240
Speaker 1: you hadn't really had a chance to even stick your

1685
01:33:30,280 --> 01:33:32,400
Speaker 1: head out of the apartment because everything was locked down.

1686
01:33:32,479 --> 01:33:35,000
Speaker 1: You are you gonna get vaccinated if you started that?

1687
01:33:35,120 --> 01:33:40,479
Speaker 1: As things have, things like eased up a hair down there. Yeah.

1688
01:33:40,880 --> 01:33:43,680
Speaker 1: I had my first Feiser vaccine a couple of weeks ago.

1689
01:33:43,680 --> 01:33:49,720
Speaker 1: I'll have my second one in about a week. And otherwise,

1690
01:33:50,280 --> 01:33:52,800
Speaker 1: I mean, everything seems to be going well here. I

1691
01:33:52,880 --> 01:33:58,280
Speaker 1: mean people are respecting the mask, and I think most

1692
01:33:58,360 --> 01:34:02,599
Speaker 1: people feel like you know, normalcy is going to return

1693
01:34:02,720 --> 01:34:06,320
Speaker 1: sometime this summer, so hopefully it does. Yeah. So Peter,

1694
01:34:06,840 --> 01:34:09,879
Speaker 1: we know that in your column this week, you essentially

1695
01:34:10,040 --> 01:34:13,840
Speaker 1: broke the news that, for lack of a better term,

1696
01:34:13,920 --> 01:34:17,080
Speaker 1: the Sky Judge is going to be something put before

1697
01:34:17,200 --> 01:34:21,880
Speaker 1: ownership next week in terms of, you know, having an

1698
01:34:21,920 --> 01:34:25,679
Speaker 1: extra level of authority to buzz down to the official,

1699
01:34:25,720 --> 01:34:29,200
Speaker 1: the head official at the games. I believe you said

1700
01:34:29,240 --> 01:34:33,320
Speaker 1: you believe it has majority support of owners and has

1701
01:34:33,320 --> 01:34:37,479
Speaker 1: a good chance of getting approved. So we've been talking

1702
01:34:37,520 --> 01:34:39,479
Speaker 1: about it on the show today. We're hoping you can

1703
01:34:39,520 --> 01:34:43,200
Speaker 1: elaborate a little bit, knowing that it's still very much

1704
01:34:43,240 --> 01:34:46,600
Speaker 1: in the planning stages. But how how likely do you

1705
01:34:46,680 --> 01:34:50,640
Speaker 1: think this thing goes through and could be enacted for

1706
01:34:50,800 --> 01:34:54,880
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one? You know, I think it's going to pass.

1707
01:34:56,320 --> 01:34:59,120
Speaker 1: I'm not positive, but I get the feeling that the

1708
01:34:59,240 --> 01:35:07,479
Speaker 1: Competition Committee, which is eight influential people coaches, gms and

1709
01:35:09,360 --> 01:35:14,240
Speaker 1: you know, front office people in the NFL, it isn't

1710
01:35:14,439 --> 01:35:18,840
Speaker 1: really the sky judge. It's it's it's got a lot

1711
01:35:18,880 --> 01:35:24,559
Speaker 1: of sky judge to it, but conceptually it's different than

1712
01:35:24,640 --> 01:35:28,400
Speaker 1: the sky judge because the sky judge would be an

1713
01:35:28,520 --> 01:35:33,080
Speaker 1: extra set of eyes in addition to the instant replay

1714
01:35:33,120 --> 01:35:36,120
Speaker 1: official who's upstairs. And I think one of the reasons

1715
01:35:36,160 --> 01:35:41,480
Speaker 1: why a lot of people around the NFL are hesitant

1716
01:35:42,240 --> 01:35:48,439
Speaker 1: to okay a sky judge is that what the instant

1717
01:35:48,520 --> 01:35:52,720
Speaker 1: replay official is going to be empowered to do is

1718
01:35:52,840 --> 01:35:58,160
Speaker 1: to call down to the referee in the immediate aftermath

1719
01:35:58,240 --> 01:36:00,080
Speaker 1: of a play and say, hey, wait a second, it

1720
01:36:00,640 --> 01:36:04,679
Speaker 1: you guys just missed. Uh you know that the catch

1721
01:36:04,760 --> 01:36:07,200
Speaker 1: no catch. You guys just ruled it a catch. It

1722
01:36:07,320 --> 01:36:12,120
Speaker 1: clearly hit the ground before, so you know, they could

1723
01:36:12,160 --> 01:36:15,439
Speaker 1: have a short crew conference and then you know, over

1724
01:36:15,680 --> 01:36:18,840
Speaker 1: overturned the call on the field before it even goes

1725
01:36:18,960 --> 01:36:24,080
Speaker 1: to replay. I think that there is some fear and

1726
01:36:24,280 --> 01:36:26,599
Speaker 1: I don't want to say fear, it's too strong a word,

1727
01:36:26,640 --> 01:36:30,240
Speaker 1: but there's some some hesitancy about the sky judge because

1728
01:36:30,400 --> 01:36:34,519
Speaker 1: this past year there were fewer penalties by a lot

1729
01:36:34,720 --> 01:36:38,519
Speaker 1: than there had been in the past. They're not looking

1730
01:36:38,680 --> 01:36:44,280
Speaker 1: to add flags really, you know, they're not looking to say, hey,

1731
01:36:44,439 --> 01:36:48,040
Speaker 1: let's let's find a holding call on the back end

1732
01:36:48,080 --> 01:36:50,280
Speaker 1: of a play that really didn't have a lot of

1733
01:36:50,400 --> 01:36:55,720
Speaker 1: influence on this play. They're looking to make sure that

1734
01:36:55,960 --> 01:37:00,080
Speaker 1: they get the real close calls right. You know, you

1735
01:37:00,160 --> 01:37:02,800
Speaker 1: have two feet down, you know, out of bounds and

1736
01:37:03,000 --> 01:37:05,880
Speaker 1: and things like, you know before he went out of bounds,

1737
01:37:06,479 --> 01:37:08,800
Speaker 1: and those are the kind of things that I think

1738
01:37:08,840 --> 01:37:13,640
Speaker 1: they're they're looking to to try to fix. Now. You know,

1739
01:37:13,800 --> 01:37:17,120
Speaker 1: one of the problems I see is that every time

1740
01:37:17,240 --> 01:37:20,160
Speaker 1: you try to do something to help the officiating, you know,

1741
01:37:20,240 --> 01:37:23,559
Speaker 1: you end up creating some problems that you really couldn't see.

1742
01:37:24,080 --> 01:37:28,880
Speaker 1: It's the proverbial unintended consequences. But I think they're going

1743
01:37:28,920 --> 01:37:32,000
Speaker 1: to probably try this for a year just to see

1744
01:37:32,040 --> 01:37:34,800
Speaker 1: if it helps them to get this set of eyes

1745
01:37:34,920 --> 01:37:37,679
Speaker 1: upstairs to tell them, hey, look, you might have missed

1746
01:37:37,720 --> 01:37:40,559
Speaker 1: this when you should go back and maybe pick up

1747
01:37:40,600 --> 01:37:43,479
Speaker 1: that flag. So they've always had a replay well not always,

1748
01:37:43,520 --> 01:37:46,519
Speaker 1: but they've got a replay official already in place, are

1749
01:37:46,560 --> 01:37:49,160
Speaker 1: they at now? They're talking about and I guess it

1750
01:37:49,240 --> 01:37:51,840
Speaker 1: makes a big difference. They're not talking about just giving

1751
01:37:51,880 --> 01:37:54,439
Speaker 1: this replay official a little bit of extra authority. They're

1752
01:37:54,479 --> 01:37:58,920
Speaker 1: talking about another guy who's physically they're talking about getting

1753
01:37:59,000 --> 01:38:02,240
Speaker 1: the replay official more authority. They don't want to add

1754
01:38:02,880 --> 01:38:07,519
Speaker 1: another person to the replay booth because Steve, I really

1755
01:38:07,640 --> 01:38:11,120
Speaker 1: think that they figure if some person is up there

1756
01:38:12,960 --> 01:38:17,439
Speaker 1: and his job is to find calls that were missed

1757
01:38:17,520 --> 01:38:20,120
Speaker 1: on the field, that's just going to add three or

1758
01:38:20,160 --> 01:38:23,759
Speaker 1: four flags, maybe six or eight flags to the course

1759
01:38:23,840 --> 01:38:27,400
Speaker 1: of a game. And they're really not looking to do that, right.

1760
01:38:27,520 --> 01:38:30,280
Speaker 1: So this guy will be there to really just they

1761
01:38:30,320 --> 01:38:32,280
Speaker 1: will be the same guy that's always there. He'll just

1762
01:38:32,400 --> 01:38:34,680
Speaker 1: have a little more freedom to intervene and say whoa,

1763
01:38:34,680 --> 01:38:36,800
Speaker 1: whoa whoa, you miss this, let's look at this, or

1764
01:38:37,200 --> 01:38:40,200
Speaker 1: let's replay this. It will have no effect on the

1765
01:38:40,280 --> 01:38:43,639
Speaker 1: coach's challenges or anything like that, and there will be anything.

1766
01:38:43,840 --> 01:38:46,760
Speaker 1: But one of the things that I was told by

1767
01:38:47,160 --> 01:38:50,360
Speaker 1: somebody in the league that I think is is very interesting.

1768
01:38:51,000 --> 01:38:55,400
Speaker 1: Suppose there's three minutes left in the in the fourth quarter,

1769
01:38:56,360 --> 01:39:01,160
Speaker 1: and you know, Sean McDermott is already you two challenges,

1770
01:39:01,600 --> 01:39:05,679
Speaker 1: so it's two challenges are gone, and so he doesn't

1771
01:39:05,680 --> 01:39:08,400
Speaker 1: have the ability to challenge a play, and there's an

1772
01:39:08,560 --> 01:39:13,599
Speaker 1: obvious missed call on the field. You know right now

1773
01:39:14,200 --> 01:39:19,479
Speaker 1: that obvious miss call cannot be adjudicated, it can't be fixed.

1774
01:39:20,360 --> 01:39:24,560
Speaker 1: But you know, under these circumstances, you know, with the

1775
01:39:24,840 --> 01:39:30,479
Speaker 1: replay official having the ability to, you know, to basically

1776
01:39:30,640 --> 01:39:34,040
Speaker 1: buzz down and say, hey, listen that you've got to

1777
01:39:34,080 --> 01:39:38,640
Speaker 1: fix this call. So I think that is what the

1778
01:39:38,880 --> 01:39:42,679
Speaker 1: NFL would rather do than add the extra body upstairs.

1779
01:39:42,800 --> 01:39:45,280
Speaker 1: So there's the only slippery slope I see is that

1780
01:39:45,439 --> 01:39:48,280
Speaker 1: you're telling You're saying that even on a missed call,

1781
01:39:49,880 --> 01:39:52,880
Speaker 1: the official could rule down, which means it probably won't

1782
01:39:52,920 --> 01:39:54,960
Speaker 1: be only in the last four minutes of the half

1783
01:39:55,080 --> 01:39:57,240
Speaker 1: or fourth quarter, It'll be no, it could be at

1784
01:39:57,240 --> 01:39:59,439
Speaker 1: any it could be at any time during the game.

1785
01:40:00,080 --> 01:40:03,200
Speaker 1: They're gonna instruct them. They're gonna give them instruction to say, listen,

1786
01:40:03,280 --> 01:40:05,679
Speaker 1: don't call this forty yards away from where the play

1787
01:40:05,800 --> 01:40:08,960
Speaker 1: is happening, right exactly. Yeah, And I Steve, I think

1788
01:40:09,040 --> 01:40:12,720
Speaker 1: one of the other things to remember is that you know,

1789
01:40:14,040 --> 01:40:21,840
Speaker 1: even though you've got theoretically you've got every all of

1790
01:40:21,960 --> 01:40:24,639
Speaker 1: the twenty two players on the field on a given play,

1791
01:40:25,439 --> 01:40:29,760
Speaker 1: they are covered by these seven officials. You know, they're

1792
01:40:29,800 --> 01:40:33,240
Speaker 1: supposed to everybody is supposed to be watching, you know,

1793
01:40:33,320 --> 01:40:36,799
Speaker 1: at least one of those you know, twenty two players.

1794
01:40:38,080 --> 01:40:41,280
Speaker 1: You know, I think a lot of times, because of

1795
01:40:41,360 --> 01:40:45,160
Speaker 1: the speed of the game and because sometimes you get

1796
01:40:45,320 --> 01:40:49,680
Speaker 1: screened on the field, you're just gonna miss things. And

1797
01:40:49,840 --> 01:40:55,160
Speaker 1: sometimes especially you know on the calls that you're not

1798
01:40:55,320 --> 01:40:58,400
Speaker 1: really sure whether you know the guy definitely got two

1799
01:40:58,479 --> 01:41:02,479
Speaker 1: feet in bounds. You're basically taking your best guests. It's

1800
01:41:02,520 --> 01:41:05,720
Speaker 1: good to have another set of eyes checking that, and

1801
01:41:06,280 --> 01:41:10,320
Speaker 1: you know, and I think particularly this extra set of

1802
01:41:10,360 --> 01:41:14,559
Speaker 1: eyes and the replay official, I think knowing that he's

1803
01:41:14,640 --> 01:41:18,200
Speaker 1: going to have more authority, in my opinion, this is

1804
01:41:18,320 --> 01:41:22,760
Speaker 1: going to up his game a little bit, because now

1805
01:41:22,920 --> 01:41:27,920
Speaker 1: he knows that he's not just watching something, you know,

1806
01:41:28,240 --> 01:41:32,400
Speaker 1: when he gets buzzed from downstairs and somebody throws, you know,

1807
01:41:32,439 --> 01:41:35,240
Speaker 1: a challenge flag. He's got to watch everything now. And

1808
01:41:35,439 --> 01:41:38,679
Speaker 1: just so our listeners are clear, Peter, these replay officials

1809
01:41:38,720 --> 01:41:41,280
Speaker 1: who have already been in place in those current roles

1810
01:41:41,800 --> 01:41:44,720
Speaker 1: that presumably will be getting a little bit extra authority.

1811
01:41:45,400 --> 01:41:50,200
Speaker 1: They have officiating backgrounds. These are many cases former officials, right,

1812
01:41:50,280 --> 01:41:52,400
Speaker 1: I mean, these are guys with officiating backgrounds. Just so

1813
01:41:52,479 --> 01:41:55,080
Speaker 1: they understand, Hey, look, there's some of them. Some of

1814
01:41:55,160 --> 01:42:00,680
Speaker 1: them are former of former officials or retired official, and

1815
01:42:00,960 --> 01:42:06,080
Speaker 1: some of them are league administrators who just have been

1816
01:42:06,120 --> 01:42:10,040
Speaker 1: around the game a lot. They know the rules obviously.

1817
01:42:10,360 --> 01:42:12,600
Speaker 1: You know. One of the other interesting things that was

1818
01:42:13,360 --> 01:42:16,720
Speaker 1: that was told to me is that the people who

1819
01:42:16,760 --> 01:42:19,840
Speaker 1: are the replay officials have to do a lot of

1820
01:42:19,880 --> 01:42:24,920
Speaker 1: the same sort of rules gymnastics and rules studies that

1821
01:42:25,479 --> 01:42:29,559
Speaker 1: the on field officials have. And if this passes, that'll

1822
01:42:29,600 --> 01:42:32,280
Speaker 1: be ratcheted up even more. Yeah. That and it's one

1823
01:42:32,320 --> 01:42:35,439
Speaker 1: of the delays they had with putting refet play officials

1824
01:42:35,560 --> 01:42:37,599
Speaker 1: in was that they wanted needed a year to get

1825
01:42:37,640 --> 01:42:40,280
Speaker 1: it ramped up, to train guys to and forget about

1826
01:42:40,280 --> 01:42:42,280
Speaker 1: the rule. The rules were the easy part for some

1827
01:42:42,400 --> 01:42:44,560
Speaker 1: of these guys. Most of the training had to do

1828
01:42:44,640 --> 01:42:46,400
Speaker 1: with how to work the knobs and dials of the

1829
01:42:46,560 --> 01:42:49,080
Speaker 1: video at angles of that. Right. I mean, they've got

1830
01:42:49,120 --> 01:42:51,360
Speaker 1: a lot of technology up there at their disposal. They've

1831
01:42:51,400 --> 01:42:55,400
Speaker 1: got screens of all the angles that are available, and

1832
01:42:55,560 --> 01:42:57,639
Speaker 1: they can call the one up they think is pertinent

1833
01:42:57,800 --> 01:43:00,200
Speaker 1: quicker than anybody else, Right, I mean that some of

1834
01:43:00,240 --> 01:43:01,800
Speaker 1: the training that we're talking about had to do with

1835
01:43:02,000 --> 01:43:05,400
Speaker 1: actually getting their eyes on the right angle. That's Steve.

1836
01:43:05,560 --> 01:43:09,120
Speaker 1: That's one of the reasons why I think, Look, they're

1837
01:43:09,280 --> 01:43:14,160
Speaker 1: seventeen replay officials in the NFL, just like they're seventeen

1838
01:43:14,640 --> 01:43:20,599
Speaker 1: officiating crews. And these seventeen replay officials, you know, who

1839
01:43:20,680 --> 01:43:25,479
Speaker 1: are attached to a crew, you know basically their skill

1840
01:43:26,560 --> 01:43:30,040
Speaker 1: versus if you hired somebody to be, say a sky judge,

1841
01:43:30,560 --> 01:43:34,800
Speaker 1: their skill as of right now. You know, I would say,

1842
01:43:35,520 --> 01:43:38,960
Speaker 1: you know, the millisecond that a play is over. If

1843
01:43:39,000 --> 01:43:42,640
Speaker 1: they know that something is really close, you know, they

1844
01:43:42,720 --> 01:43:46,240
Speaker 1: can check it and within eight or ten seconds they'll

1845
01:43:46,320 --> 01:43:51,320
Speaker 1: have an answer. They'll have seen three three views of

1846
01:43:51,439 --> 01:43:54,280
Speaker 1: this call, and they can call down and say to

1847
01:43:54,439 --> 01:43:58,080
Speaker 1: a crew conference, guys, you really miss that that call.

1848
01:43:58,200 --> 01:44:01,240
Speaker 1: You've got to you've got to reverse that. So look,

1849
01:44:01,600 --> 01:44:06,920
Speaker 1: the one strategic element in this could be that you

1850
01:44:07,080 --> 01:44:10,559
Speaker 1: could see coaches wait and wait and wait before they

1851
01:44:10,640 --> 01:44:15,120
Speaker 1: throw a challenge flag, because it's possible now that the

1852
01:44:15,240 --> 01:44:19,880
Speaker 1: replay official upstairs is going to sort of head that

1853
01:44:20,080 --> 01:44:22,640
Speaker 1: process off at the past. Yeah, it's certainly gonna be

1854
01:44:22,680 --> 01:44:24,920
Speaker 1: interesting to watch it unfold and to see if any

1855
01:44:24,960 --> 01:44:28,320
Speaker 1: of those intended consequences that you speak of come to

1856
01:44:28,439 --> 01:44:30,360
Speaker 1: the forefront as well and force them to kind of

1857
01:44:30,400 --> 01:44:33,200
Speaker 1: rethink this whole thing. And I think the replay official

1858
01:44:33,360 --> 01:44:36,080
Speaker 1: will be more He'll know that if the if the

1859
01:44:36,200 --> 01:44:41,320
Speaker 1: coach has a challenge, he may as well not wait,

1860
01:44:41,360 --> 01:44:43,280
Speaker 1: I mean, if the coach is going to challenge it anyway,

1861
01:44:43,400 --> 01:44:45,000
Speaker 1: he may as well fix it with you know what

1862
01:44:45,040 --> 01:44:48,360
Speaker 1: I mean, if if the coach wants it fixed, even

1863
01:44:48,400 --> 01:44:51,320
Speaker 1: if he and if and if the replay officials say,

1864
01:44:51,320 --> 01:44:53,479
Speaker 1: for instance, it's a first down he wants it at

1865
01:44:53,520 --> 01:44:56,799
Speaker 1: a one yard is sort of a two yard spot,

1866
01:44:57,040 --> 01:44:58,880
Speaker 1: or that you know, the official from upstairs, Hey, hey

1867
01:44:58,920 --> 01:45:00,400
Speaker 1: he missed that by a whole yard. It's going to

1868
01:45:00,439 --> 01:45:03,600
Speaker 1: be fourth and a half, not fourth and two. That

1869
01:45:03,760 --> 01:45:06,160
Speaker 1: would make a difference for a coach were as it

1870
01:45:06,400 --> 01:45:09,000
Speaker 1: will make a difference in Steve. Most times in those

1871
01:45:09,080 --> 01:45:11,840
Speaker 1: cases they're not going to throw a challenge flag other

1872
01:45:11,960 --> 01:45:15,280
Speaker 1: than you know, if if it's you know, if it's

1873
01:45:15,360 --> 01:45:19,080
Speaker 1: late in the game. Sometimes you see challenge flags thrown,

1874
01:45:19,680 --> 01:45:21,679
Speaker 1: you know, on a spot if they think the spot

1875
01:45:21,760 --> 01:45:25,479
Speaker 1: has been egregiously missed or you know, something that could

1876
01:45:25,520 --> 01:45:29,960
Speaker 1: affect the spot. But yeah, I can see the spots

1877
01:45:30,280 --> 01:45:34,640
Speaker 1: of plays being affected by this as well. All right, well,

1878
01:45:34,680 --> 01:45:36,599
Speaker 1: this is not the only reason we have you on, Peter.

1879
01:45:36,680 --> 01:45:38,439
Speaker 1: We kind of got down the rabbit hole, maybe even

1880
01:45:38,520 --> 01:45:41,519
Speaker 1: further than we wanted. But free agency, I know you

1881
01:45:41,640 --> 01:45:45,000
Speaker 1: had a long conversation with Robert Kraft, the Patriots owner,

1882
01:45:45,040 --> 01:45:49,080
Speaker 1: about their activity therein arguably one of the most active

1883
01:45:49,680 --> 01:45:52,320
Speaker 1: in free agency, although Houston probably gave him a run

1884
01:45:52,360 --> 01:45:55,000
Speaker 1: for their money with all their releases and signings. But

1885
01:45:55,520 --> 01:45:58,120
Speaker 1: as far as the AFC East is concerned, because that's

1886
01:45:58,120 --> 01:46:02,800
Speaker 1: what we're usually concerned with, Peter, did the balance and

1887
01:46:02,960 --> 01:46:05,920
Speaker 1: the competition level? I mean, who closed the gap on

1888
01:46:06,000 --> 01:46:08,960
Speaker 1: the bills The current AFC's champions the most. Do you think,

1889
01:46:09,280 --> 01:46:11,360
Speaker 1: I know the Patriots were most active. Did they close

1890
01:46:11,400 --> 01:46:16,120
Speaker 1: the gap the most? Yeah? I mean it's it's really

1891
01:46:16,240 --> 01:46:20,000
Speaker 1: interesting if you ask me. Right now, I think the

1892
01:46:20,080 --> 01:46:23,920
Speaker 1: Patriots and the Dolphins are almost an entry. You know,

1893
01:46:24,040 --> 01:46:28,560
Speaker 1: they're to me, they're very very close. A lot of

1894
01:46:28,640 --> 01:46:33,000
Speaker 1: people might say, oh, the Patriots did so much more

1895
01:46:33,160 --> 01:46:37,559
Speaker 1: than the Patriots were already a respectable team, and they

1896
01:46:37,680 --> 01:46:40,360
Speaker 1: did so much more but than the Dolphins did, And

1897
01:46:40,439 --> 01:46:43,639
Speaker 1: I would say, yeah, but I think the Dolphins base

1898
01:46:43,760 --> 01:46:46,439
Speaker 1: of talent is pretty good right now. And I think

1899
01:46:46,479 --> 01:46:49,080
Speaker 1: it's going to come down to with those two teams,

1900
01:46:49,920 --> 01:46:54,439
Speaker 1: whose quarterback plays better to Watongavalo and Miami or Cam

1901
01:46:54,560 --> 01:46:58,080
Speaker 1: Newton in New England. I still think because of the

1902
01:46:58,240 --> 01:47:05,800
Speaker 1: bills explosive potential. Look, this might be a little bit

1903
01:47:06,040 --> 01:47:10,040
Speaker 1: of an overstatement, but the best free agent signing in

1904
01:47:10,160 --> 01:47:13,000
Speaker 1: the in the a FCS might have been Matt Milano

1905
01:47:13,120 --> 01:47:18,599
Speaker 1: returning to Buffalo because, in my opinion, when I watch games,

1906
01:47:20,680 --> 01:47:25,400
Speaker 1: there's two linebackers in the NFL, Matt Milano and Fred

1907
01:47:25,479 --> 01:47:30,160
Speaker 1: Warner of San Francisco. Every game they play, I expect

1908
01:47:30,240 --> 01:47:33,200
Speaker 1: them when I look at the stat sheet afterwards, I

1909
01:47:33,320 --> 01:47:37,360
Speaker 1: expect both those guys to thirteen tackles. So that was

1910
01:47:37,479 --> 01:47:42,080
Speaker 1: a crucial in my opinion, resigning for Buffalo. And really

1911
01:47:42,120 --> 01:47:44,759
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills have really focused more on the signing

1912
01:47:44,760 --> 01:47:46,679
Speaker 1: their own and they did. They signed, I say, McKenzie

1913
01:47:46,720 --> 01:47:49,360
Speaker 1: back this morning. He's coming back. So most of their

1914
01:47:49,840 --> 01:47:53,320
Speaker 1: free agents, aside from Emmanuel Sanders, have come from within

1915
01:47:53,400 --> 01:47:56,040
Speaker 1: the building. Now how crucial is it? Do you think

1916
01:47:56,080 --> 01:47:59,160
Speaker 1: that you go in there? Look, you know, Williams, the

1917
01:47:59,240 --> 01:48:03,840
Speaker 1: tackle I think was a great was a great get

1918
01:48:04,040 --> 01:48:08,280
Speaker 1: for them because I think he's one of those players

1919
01:48:08,360 --> 01:48:13,320
Speaker 1: that because the position is so needy in you know, Look,

1920
01:48:13,520 --> 01:48:16,519
Speaker 1: I don't know that this would have happened, but I

1921
01:48:16,640 --> 01:48:19,799
Speaker 1: can tell you that the Cincinnati Bengals were out offering

1922
01:48:20,280 --> 01:48:25,000
Speaker 1: very big money it's offensive linemen early on in this process.

1923
01:48:26,040 --> 01:48:30,160
Speaker 1: They missed on Kevin Zeitler. They offered more than Baltimore

1924
01:48:30,240 --> 01:48:33,720
Speaker 1: did on Zeitler. So it would not have surprised me

1925
01:48:34,520 --> 01:48:39,040
Speaker 1: if Williams had not signed by the time, you know,

1926
01:48:39,280 --> 01:48:43,679
Speaker 1: very early on last week. That if he hadn't signed,

1927
01:48:45,439 --> 01:48:50,080
Speaker 1: I think somebody, at least Cincinnati would have offered him

1928
01:48:50,080 --> 01:48:52,400
Speaker 1: a lot of money. Last one, very quickly, Peter, because

1929
01:48:52,400 --> 01:48:55,680
Speaker 1: we know your time is short. Just the Emmanuel Sanders acquisition,

1930
01:48:56,600 --> 01:48:58,519
Speaker 1: we're kind of of the opinion that the Bills have

1931
01:48:58,720 --> 01:49:02,240
Speaker 1: three of the best route runners in terms of precise

1932
01:49:02,360 --> 01:49:05,519
Speaker 1: route runners, arguably in the league, all on the same roster,

1933
01:49:05,600 --> 01:49:09,679
Speaker 1: their top three receivers. What do you think, Well, look,

1934
01:49:09,960 --> 01:49:16,200
Speaker 1: I you know, I really like Emmanuel Sanders a lot.

1935
01:49:16,880 --> 01:49:19,679
Speaker 1: I mean I really like John Brown a lot too. Yeah,

1936
01:49:20,120 --> 01:49:26,200
Speaker 1: but again again, you know, you have to make choices

1937
01:49:27,160 --> 01:49:30,439
Speaker 1: in free agency. You have to make choices based on health.

1938
01:49:30,920 --> 01:49:33,800
Speaker 1: You never really know how many games John Brown's gonna play.

1939
01:49:35,240 --> 01:49:39,840
Speaker 1: And look, Emmanuel Sanders is you know, he reminds me

1940
01:49:40,000 --> 01:49:45,040
Speaker 1: of that that left handed pitcher that a team trades

1941
01:49:45,160 --> 01:49:49,679
Speaker 1: for a Pennant contending team trades for on July thirty first,

1942
01:49:50,120 --> 01:49:54,080
Speaker 1: the crafty left hander, you know, to try to win

1943
01:49:54,240 --> 01:49:58,240
Speaker 1: some games where you down the stretch. He's not only

1944
01:49:58,320 --> 01:50:01,920
Speaker 1: a great route runner, but he's smart, art, got great instincts.

1945
01:50:02,720 --> 01:50:07,040
Speaker 1: I love that signing, and I was surprised that he

1946
01:50:07,120 --> 01:50:10,600
Speaker 1: went to Buffalo because I know that Brandon Bean is

1947
01:50:10,680 --> 01:50:14,640
Speaker 1: being very very careful about you know, he wants to

1948
01:50:14,760 --> 01:50:18,400
Speaker 1: make sure that his cap situation, he's exactly like Chris

1949
01:50:18,520 --> 01:50:22,200
Speaker 1: Ballard in Indianapolis. He wants to make sure that he

1950
01:50:22,320 --> 01:50:26,360
Speaker 1: can keep all of his own guys that he really values.

1951
01:50:26,479 --> 01:50:30,360
Speaker 1: So I was impressed they were able to add Emmanuel Sanders. Yeah,

1952
01:50:30,479 --> 01:50:32,519
Speaker 1: Peter thinks, man, it's great talking to you. I hope

1953
01:50:32,520 --> 01:50:34,439
Speaker 1: you do a wish your best on your second VA

1954
01:50:34,720 --> 01:50:36,920
Speaker 1: you know, your second round of vaccinations, so you can

1955
01:50:37,360 --> 01:50:40,760
Speaker 1: go out and do what you do. Thanks so much, Steve,

1956
01:50:40,880 --> 01:50:42,760
Speaker 1: good to be on me. Thank you, Chris, thank you.

1957
01:50:42,920 --> 01:50:45,439
Speaker 1: I appreciate the time. As always. That's Peter King joining

1958
01:50:45,520 --> 01:50:48,240
Speaker 1: us here from NBC Sports and his Football Morning in

1959
01:50:48,320 --> 01:50:52,559
Speaker 1: America column. Yeah, I mean, I'm not surprised. It seems

1960
01:50:52,600 --> 01:50:57,840
Speaker 1: like everybody universally likes the Sanders signing. It's interesting because,

1961
01:50:58,400 --> 01:51:00,560
Speaker 1: you know, Brandon said it himself. They had tried for

1962
01:51:00,600 --> 01:51:02,320
Speaker 1: a couple of years to acquire him. They even tried

1963
01:51:02,360 --> 01:51:04,760
Speaker 1: to acquire him buy a trade a couple of years ago.

1964
01:51:05,560 --> 01:51:09,000
Speaker 1: So he's a guy that's yeah, long been in the

1965
01:51:09,080 --> 01:51:12,400
Speaker 1: mix that they've tried to land here. So now that

1966
01:51:12,479 --> 01:51:14,639
Speaker 1: they finally got him, it's really going to be interesting

1967
01:51:14,720 --> 01:51:19,200
Speaker 1: to see them on the field together as a trio.

1968
01:51:19,680 --> 01:51:22,200
Speaker 1: And let's not forget you know, Gabe Davis isn't that

1969
01:51:22,240 --> 01:51:25,240
Speaker 1: bad or outrunner either for a rookie, and who's only

1970
01:51:25,280 --> 01:51:27,080
Speaker 1: going to get better. I mean, that kid hasn't even

1971
01:51:27,120 --> 01:51:29,599
Speaker 1: come close to reaching his ceiling. So you think about

1972
01:51:29,600 --> 01:51:32,320
Speaker 1: the top four, and then you got Mackenzie stretching defense

1973
01:51:32,360 --> 01:51:35,760
Speaker 1: as horizontally now that he's back in the fold, hard

1974
01:51:35,880 --> 01:51:38,800
Speaker 1: not to love it. They should be able to throw

1975
01:51:38,880 --> 01:51:42,320
Speaker 1: the football effectively and move the move it and score

1976
01:51:42,400 --> 01:51:47,240
Speaker 1: points again. We'll see, We'll see if everybody stays upright

1977
01:51:47,280 --> 01:51:49,639
Speaker 1: and on two good pins, they should. He should be okay,

1978
01:51:49,920 --> 01:51:53,280
Speaker 1: two good pins, that's a good one. I haven't heard

1979
01:51:53,320 --> 01:51:58,639
Speaker 1: that sticks gams a whole bunch of words for legs

1980
01:51:58,680 --> 01:52:06,559
Speaker 1: that people use. I was interested in his comment about

1981
01:52:06,680 --> 01:52:09,160
Speaker 1: being cap strong. We know that that is Brandon Being's

1982
01:52:09,160 --> 01:52:13,040
Speaker 1: philosophy unequivocally. He tries to stay as cap strong as possible,

1983
01:52:13,920 --> 01:52:18,680
Speaker 1: especially after having to suffer through twenty eighteen, which was

1984
01:52:18,760 --> 01:52:22,640
Speaker 1: there bite the bullet cap year, if we remember, and

1985
01:52:22,760 --> 01:52:24,960
Speaker 1: then they spent in free agency in nineteen to get

1986
01:52:25,000 --> 01:52:27,920
Speaker 1: the roster up to snuff, and then now with this

1987
01:52:28,040 --> 01:52:31,920
Speaker 1: restrictive cap, they're really being disciplined in their spending. But

1988
01:52:32,000 --> 01:52:34,320
Speaker 1: it's been largely rooted, as you pointed out with Peter

1989
01:52:35,320 --> 01:52:39,240
Speaker 1: in keeping their own and Peter echoed that sentiment that, yeah,

1990
01:52:39,400 --> 01:52:41,639
Speaker 1: he wants to keep his own guys that he values,

1991
01:52:42,200 --> 01:52:44,200
Speaker 1: and if they continue to draft, well, it only makes

1992
01:52:44,240 --> 01:52:47,439
Speaker 1: sense to do that, especially considering, as we reference all

1993
01:52:47,479 --> 01:52:49,840
Speaker 1: the time, the way they're able to make players better

1994
01:52:49,920 --> 01:52:52,799
Speaker 1: here through their development and their coaching. Yeah, that's critical,

1995
01:52:52,880 --> 01:52:57,719
Speaker 1: and well it's got to continue. This is he always

1996
01:52:58,040 --> 01:52:59,920
Speaker 1: you know, Bill's fan. I think fans of every team

1997
01:53:00,080 --> 01:53:02,160
Speaker 1: kind of wring your hands when things go well, that's awesome,

1998
01:53:02,200 --> 01:53:03,800
Speaker 1: but then they start to go too well, you start

1999
01:53:03,880 --> 01:53:06,840
Speaker 1: to go, oh god, what you know, um, getting Raza

2000
01:53:07,000 --> 01:53:12,200
Speaker 1: McKenzie back, Milano back, Feliciano back, Daryl Williams back, Levi

2001
01:53:12,360 --> 01:53:18,360
Speaker 1: Wallace back. Did you say Milano? Yeah, you know, it's like, well, now,

2002
01:53:18,840 --> 01:53:20,760
Speaker 1: how are we gonna get better? Right? I mean, how

2003
01:53:20,760 --> 01:53:22,400
Speaker 1: are we gonna improve? And the simple fact of the

2004
01:53:22,439 --> 01:53:26,080
Speaker 1: matter is you're gonna get an elevated sense of accomplishment

2005
01:53:26,120 --> 01:53:28,400
Speaker 1: when these guys come back into the same system. There's

2006
01:53:28,439 --> 01:53:31,360
Speaker 1: gonna be competition. They're gonna bring guys in. Um that

2007
01:53:31,560 --> 01:53:34,640
Speaker 1: can certainly on with these draft picks. Anyway, that can

2008
01:53:34,720 --> 01:53:38,320
Speaker 1: compete for positions. There's guys that are going to emerge

2009
01:53:38,560 --> 01:53:40,479
Speaker 1: as being better players than they worry a year ago.

2010
01:53:40,520 --> 01:53:44,599
Speaker 1: As well. Behind these guys, I still worry. I worry

2011
01:53:44,600 --> 01:53:46,439
Speaker 1: about their depth on a D line d O line,

2012
01:53:46,760 --> 01:53:50,200
Speaker 1: but their front line guys are seem to me pretty good. Yeah,

2013
01:53:50,320 --> 01:53:53,120
Speaker 1: pretty good. And I think you can make the argument

2014
01:53:53,240 --> 01:53:57,240
Speaker 1: that the tight end position offers more versatility now with

2015
01:53:57,439 --> 01:54:01,320
Speaker 1: Hollister on the roster, because that guys lined up everywhere.

2016
01:54:01,600 --> 01:54:03,880
Speaker 1: Now you have Reggie Gilliam, a young player who can

2017
01:54:04,000 --> 01:54:06,360
Speaker 1: line up in the backfield, can be the move guy.

2018
01:54:06,880 --> 01:54:08,800
Speaker 1: But Hollish that can do all those things as well.

2019
01:54:09,200 --> 01:54:11,240
Speaker 1: And let's not forget this. I think it is at

2020
01:54:11,360 --> 01:54:15,840
Speaker 1: least at Brian Dable's disposal that if he wants to

2021
01:54:16,720 --> 01:54:19,240
Speaker 1: can have a lot of different looks at a twelve personnel,

2022
01:54:19,280 --> 01:54:21,479
Speaker 1: if he wants to go that way with Hollister and

2023
01:54:21,520 --> 01:54:23,400
Speaker 1: Knox on the field. At the same time, you know,

2024
01:54:23,720 --> 01:54:26,400
Speaker 1: a lot of has been said about, you know, the

2025
01:54:26,840 --> 01:54:31,439
Speaker 1: New England Patriots getting John U. Smith and Hunter Henry

2026
01:54:31,600 --> 01:54:35,400
Speaker 1: in the fold there. I think you're right. I think

2027
01:54:35,480 --> 01:54:38,920
Speaker 1: the Bills aren't outside, It isn't outside the realm of possibility.

2028
01:54:38,920 --> 01:54:40,880
Speaker 1: They do the same thing. We've talked about how much

2029
01:54:40,920 --> 01:54:46,560
Speaker 1: they go four wide. They may go ten personnel and

2030
01:54:46,760 --> 01:54:50,120
Speaker 1: twelve personnel a lot and skip eleven personnel this year.

2031
01:54:50,280 --> 01:54:53,120
Speaker 1: Oh you think they could skip eleven That was their

2032
01:54:53,200 --> 01:54:56,320
Speaker 1: most popular formation last year. But wow, you think it

2033
01:54:56,360 --> 01:54:59,040
Speaker 1: could be a ten and twelve year Wow? Yeah, or

2034
01:54:59,040 --> 01:55:03,280
Speaker 1: a thirteen and ten year with Gilliam. Now, they'd have

2035
01:55:03,360 --> 01:55:05,160
Speaker 1: to stay healthy and they can't have all these guys

2036
01:55:05,280 --> 01:55:08,240
Speaker 1: committed to the you know, to the yeah, to those

2037
01:55:08,320 --> 01:55:12,080
Speaker 1: two spots. But because you got three tight ends all

2038
01:55:12,160 --> 01:55:16,280
Speaker 1: the time that are active, and if Gilliam, Hollister and

2039
01:55:16,480 --> 01:55:20,120
Speaker 1: Knox are all versatile enough, it gives you some It

2040
01:55:20,240 --> 01:55:22,080
Speaker 1: gives you some leeway to put them out there at

2041
01:55:22,120 --> 01:55:24,000
Speaker 1: the same time and spread them out or pack them

2042
01:55:24,080 --> 01:55:28,200
Speaker 1: in and as well as thrown out you know, Emmanuel

2043
01:55:28,240 --> 01:55:31,480
Speaker 1: Sanders and Gabe Davis at the same time with you know,

2044
01:55:31,840 --> 01:55:35,280
Speaker 1: with Diggs and Beasley. So a lot of options. And

2045
01:55:35,400 --> 01:55:37,640
Speaker 1: I don't think that Patriots are the only ones thinking

2046
01:55:37,680 --> 01:55:41,640
Speaker 1: about maybe playing a multiple tight inset. And Sweeney's probably

2047
01:55:41,680 --> 01:55:46,760
Speaker 1: your fourth tight end and that's that's right, active or not? Yeah,

2048
01:55:47,040 --> 01:55:50,800
Speaker 1: And your wonder might that be it a tight end

2049
01:55:50,880 --> 01:55:55,480
Speaker 1: now you know they traded away Lee Smith. Okay, Tyler

2050
01:55:55,520 --> 01:55:58,320
Speaker 1: Croft became a free agent signed with the Jets. So

2051
01:55:58,520 --> 01:56:05,040
Speaker 1: now it's not Hollister, gilliam Sweeney, Nate Becker was resigned

2052
01:56:05,080 --> 01:56:07,040
Speaker 1: as a reserve future free agent. He's been on the

2053
01:56:07,080 --> 01:56:10,160
Speaker 1: practice squad going five or six. You might be done there,

2054
01:56:10,400 --> 01:56:12,360
Speaker 1: you might be done. You could probably go to training

2055
01:56:12,400 --> 01:56:15,960
Speaker 1: camp with with those guys, um and in games you'd

2056
01:56:16,000 --> 01:56:21,760
Speaker 1: have Sweeney and um Becker taking most of the reps

2057
01:56:21,800 --> 01:56:23,320
Speaker 1: in the games, you know, getting a look at them.

2058
01:56:23,800 --> 01:56:27,080
Speaker 1: Knock the preseason, you're ye Knox, Hollister and Gilliams spread

2059
01:56:27,120 --> 01:56:28,800
Speaker 1: and sprinkled in a little bit to begin with, and

2060
01:56:28,880 --> 01:56:31,080
Speaker 1: then letting those young guys see what they got and

2061
01:56:31,240 --> 01:56:32,880
Speaker 1: see who wants to be the fourth guy or the

2062
01:56:32,960 --> 01:56:37,960
Speaker 1: third guy or wherever whoever they can compete with. So yeah,

2063
01:56:38,080 --> 01:56:43,000
Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's their wide receiver, man. That is it.

2064
01:56:44,720 --> 01:56:47,200
Speaker 1: That is a tough group to bust. That is a

2065
01:56:47,320 --> 01:56:50,600
Speaker 1: tough group to bust in. Now we should remember they

2066
01:56:50,720 --> 01:56:55,840
Speaker 1: kept six last year. Does Hollister's addition to the roster

2067
01:56:56,240 --> 01:56:59,800
Speaker 1: change that at all? I mean, if you're indicating, well,

2068
01:56:59,840 --> 01:57:02,080
Speaker 1: you're saying ten and twelve personnel. If they're going ten

2069
01:57:02,120 --> 01:57:05,760
Speaker 1: a lot, then no, they will keep six receivers presumably,

2070
01:57:06,240 --> 01:57:09,160
Speaker 1: but if they go eleven and twelve primarily activated, SI

2071
01:57:09,400 --> 01:57:12,480
Speaker 1: could change the numbers game there. They activated six receivers

2072
01:57:12,520 --> 01:57:14,680
Speaker 1: a time every week. Now. Listen, though they had Andrea

2073
01:57:14,800 --> 01:57:17,360
Speaker 1: Roberts counted as a receiver. True. Now, if he's out

2074
01:57:17,400 --> 01:57:20,240
Speaker 1: of the mix and McKenzie's your punt returner and gives

2075
01:57:20,280 --> 01:57:23,320
Speaker 1: you some sprinkled in snaps offensively, that's an extra roster

2076
01:57:23,440 --> 01:57:27,040
Speaker 1: spot you get back on game day. Yeah, So if

2077
01:57:27,440 --> 01:57:31,600
Speaker 1: McKenzie comes back and returns punts, that's an extra roster

2078
01:57:31,720 --> 01:57:33,480
Speaker 1: spot that you can put somewhere that you know you

2079
01:57:33,520 --> 01:57:37,800
Speaker 1: don't have to manufacture with a guy that actually even

2080
01:57:37,840 --> 01:57:41,440
Speaker 1: gives you anything on special teams, which may or may

2081
01:57:41,480 --> 01:57:43,920
Speaker 1: not be the case. So it does give it is.

2082
01:57:44,320 --> 01:57:46,240
Speaker 1: There's a lot of questions that have to be answered.

2083
01:57:46,280 --> 01:57:48,840
Speaker 1: I love the moving parts. Last year, we were all

2084
01:57:48,880 --> 01:57:52,160
Speaker 1: surprised when Pat DeMarco was released and we thought, well,

2085
01:57:52,200 --> 01:57:53,880
Speaker 1: what are they gonna do. They got Reggie Gilliam and

2086
01:57:53,920 --> 01:57:55,840
Speaker 1: then they moved Gilliam to tied in. It was like, well,

2087
01:57:55,880 --> 01:57:58,280
Speaker 1: now that should have been a there's not going to

2088
01:57:58,320 --> 01:58:01,640
Speaker 1: be a fullback. Yeah, apparently, not only were gonna go

2089
01:58:01,720 --> 01:58:04,720
Speaker 1: ten eleven personnel, We're going ten personnel more than anybody

2090
01:58:04,720 --> 01:58:06,960
Speaker 1: in the league. That was a surprise, And of course

2091
01:58:07,000 --> 01:58:09,600
Speaker 1: it turned out because of Gabe Davis as a rookie

2092
01:58:10,200 --> 01:58:15,720
Speaker 1: impressed these guys. That may be that might be the

2093
01:58:15,800 --> 01:58:19,360
Speaker 1: most impressive thing a rookie did last year for this team.

2094
01:58:19,640 --> 01:58:21,600
Speaker 1: Although Bass had a pretty good year, Yes, he did

2095
01:58:21,680 --> 01:58:25,680
Speaker 1: broke the record for single season scoring. Yeah. Now, obviously

2096
01:58:25,800 --> 01:58:27,680
Speaker 1: that was also rooted in the fact that the team

2097
01:58:27,800 --> 01:58:30,120
Speaker 1: was such a prolific scoring team. He had a lot

2098
01:58:30,120 --> 01:58:33,240
Speaker 1: of opportunity to be the leading scorer. But I do

2099
01:58:33,400 --> 01:58:35,880
Speaker 1: seem to recall three fifty plus yard field goals on

2100
01:58:36,040 --> 01:58:39,120
Speaker 1: grass in Arizona. That was nothing to sneeze at. In

2101
01:58:39,200 --> 01:58:40,560
Speaker 1: the first half, he had like was it with the

2102
01:58:40,680 --> 01:58:44,680
Speaker 1: long ones fifty He had a fifty fifty three, a

2103
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Speaker 1: fifty seven and a fifty eight. And I remember I

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01:58:47,320 --> 01:58:50,560
Speaker 1: an eagle on the TV going Bass a medic, you

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01:58:50,640 --> 01:58:56,040
Speaker 1: know he was, he was, Yeah, that's some good bass, right.

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01:58:56,520 --> 01:58:59,360
Speaker 1: It was killing the Saturday night Live dating ourselves. But yeah,

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01:59:00,560 --> 01:59:03,960
Speaker 1: that's but I'm telling you that I Bass is what

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01:59:04,080 --> 01:59:05,680
Speaker 1: he is as a kicker, and I get it, and

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01:59:05,800 --> 01:59:09,080
Speaker 1: he had an impressive rookie season. I think we all

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01:59:09,120 --> 01:59:11,240
Speaker 1: saw him stumble out of the blocks, but man oh man,

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01:59:11,320 --> 01:59:14,240
Speaker 1: he got it together and came through for the club.

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01:59:15,200 --> 01:59:19,720
Speaker 1: But Gabe Davis, Gabriel Davis coming out on opening day

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01:59:20,160 --> 01:59:24,920
Speaker 1: and getting on the field and being an option, that

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01:59:25,360 --> 01:59:29,000
Speaker 1: to me was a startling. After the offseason they had

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01:59:29,880 --> 01:59:34,760
Speaker 1: no preseason game. Everything is virtual. That was startling and

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01:59:34,920 --> 01:59:37,880
Speaker 1: it didn't stop throughout the season. Break time for us.

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Speaker 1: When we come back, we'll discuss more of this stuff,

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Speaker 1: including the resigning of one Isaiah Mackenzie now that it

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Speaker 1: is in fact official, and Steve and I will have

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01:59:47,280 --> 01:59:51,160
Speaker 1: a little time for some NFL true false as we

2121
01:59:51,280 --> 01:59:57,200
Speaker 1: talk Jets, Patriots and Kendrick Drake will do that when

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Speaker 1: we return here on One Bill's Live, presented by Collid

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Speaker 1: of Health, This is Buffalo Bill's Radio. I'm gonna act

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Speaker 1: to One Bills by Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you.

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Speaker 1: We haven't mentioned on the show today that it is

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02:00:16,640 --> 02:00:20,760
Speaker 1: Alabama's pro day. A number of their top prospects not

2127
02:00:20,920 --> 02:00:24,400
Speaker 1: really working out in any capacity because quite frankly, they

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02:00:24,440 --> 02:00:27,520
Speaker 1: don't need to. They're gonna probably go in the first

2129
02:00:27,600 --> 02:00:31,920
Speaker 1: round anyway. But their top corner, Patrick's Rutan, the second

2130
02:00:32,960 --> 02:00:36,720
Speaker 1: son of the former NFL corner who played for the Dolphins,

2131
02:00:36,760 --> 02:00:40,560
Speaker 1: amongst a couple of other teams, just had a monster workout.

2132
02:00:41,360 --> 02:00:43,440
Speaker 1: This is a six two, two hundred eight pound corner,

2133
02:00:43,520 --> 02:00:46,120
Speaker 1: Steve who's expected to go in the top fifteen picks.

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02:00:46,160 --> 02:00:48,760
Speaker 1: He's probably going in the top ten now. Just ran

2135
02:00:48,840 --> 02:00:52,800
Speaker 1: a four four two forty thirty nine inch vertical ten

2136
02:00:52,880 --> 02:00:56,360
Speaker 1: foot eleven inch broad jump eighteen reps at two twenty five.

2137
02:00:57,200 --> 02:01:00,120
Speaker 1: Not bad at all. And we do know that it's

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02:01:00,160 --> 02:01:03,360
Speaker 1: been reported that GM Brandon Bean is down there viewing

2139
02:01:03,400 --> 02:01:08,160
Speaker 1: the Alabama Pro Day. So there's down there because it's

2140
02:01:08,160 --> 02:01:10,720
Speaker 1: not just St. Patrick's retained the second that are down there.

2141
02:01:10,760 --> 02:01:13,240
Speaker 1: There's a bunch of guys that can play down there. Yeah.

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02:01:13,280 --> 02:01:16,280
Speaker 1: Just a few, Yeah, just a few. The Steelers have

2143
02:01:16,400 --> 02:01:20,040
Speaker 1: announced that they have released cornerbacks Stephen Nelson. The move

2144
02:01:20,120 --> 02:01:22,640
Speaker 1: saves them just over eight million in salary cap space,

2145
02:01:22,720 --> 02:01:28,040
Speaker 1: which they need in droves right now. The Steelers came

2146
02:01:28,120 --> 02:01:32,080
Speaker 1: under some criticism from their own fans for signing Juju

2147
02:01:32,160 --> 02:01:34,400
Speaker 1: Smith Schuster to a one year, eight million dollars deal

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02:01:34,520 --> 02:01:37,920
Speaker 1: and not keeping Stephen Nelson. Now, I know there's a

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02:01:37,960 --> 02:01:41,000
Speaker 1: healthy respect for defense down there. This is a defense,

2150
02:01:41,080 --> 02:01:42,720
Speaker 1: by the way, that's led the league in sacks each

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02:01:42,760 --> 02:01:47,040
Speaker 1: of the last four years consecutively. And it's doing part

2152
02:01:47,200 --> 02:01:49,160
Speaker 1: he's a good player. It's doing part to the guys

2153
02:01:49,200 --> 02:01:51,000
Speaker 1: they have on the back end. Joe Hayden and Stephen

2154
02:01:51,000 --> 02:01:53,000
Speaker 1: Nelson were the starting corners last year. That will not

2155
02:01:53,120 --> 02:01:56,600
Speaker 1: happen now. Stephen Nelson will have to find work elsewhere,

2156
02:01:56,640 --> 02:01:59,400
Speaker 1: and I anticipate he will find it in short order

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02:02:00,000 --> 02:02:03,640
Speaker 1: and participate. The bills are on the phone, you think, so, yeah,

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02:02:03,920 --> 02:02:06,040
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I just wonder in which fast you can

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02:02:06,120 --> 02:02:08,240
Speaker 1: get him. That's a good question. He was making eight

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02:02:08,320 --> 02:02:10,520
Speaker 1: point two five Yeah, but they cut him for that

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02:02:10,760 --> 02:02:14,960
Speaker 1: and on a one year deal. He's looking for work

2162
02:02:15,000 --> 02:02:19,800
Speaker 1: and wants to be on a team. Yeah, the bills

2163
02:02:19,840 --> 02:02:23,560
Speaker 1: are on the phone, I would imagine, and rightfully so. Yeah.

2164
02:02:24,080 --> 02:02:27,760
Speaker 1: It looks as though Raiders quarterback Marcus Mariot to back

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02:02:27,840 --> 02:02:30,320
Speaker 1: up to Derek Carr, will stay there. He had a

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02:02:30,360 --> 02:02:32,960
Speaker 1: ten and a half million dollar cap figure. It looks

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02:02:32,960 --> 02:02:36,440
Speaker 1: like he's accepted a seven million dollar cut down to

2168
02:02:36,600 --> 02:02:38,840
Speaker 1: three and a half million on a one year deal.

2169
02:02:39,240 --> 02:02:41,360
Speaker 1: So he can get out in free agency next year,

2170
02:02:41,440 --> 02:02:45,120
Speaker 1: but he's going to stay with the Raiders. How crazy

2171
02:02:45,160 --> 02:02:49,560
Speaker 1: would this be if you're another team now that cap

2172
02:02:49,640 --> 02:02:51,560
Speaker 1: figure has dropped from ten and a half to three

2173
02:02:51,640 --> 02:02:55,680
Speaker 1: and a half. Would you be if you liked him

2174
02:02:55,800 --> 02:02:58,120
Speaker 1: as a possible quarterback option or somebody to bring in

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02:02:58,200 --> 02:03:01,120
Speaker 1: for a conversation. Wouldn't you offer maybe a little bit

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02:03:01,240 --> 02:03:04,200
Speaker 1: more now, hoping you could convince the Raider. So you're

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Speaker 1: seeing that he's signed back there, the Raiders just did

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Speaker 1: all the heavy work for you. They did all the

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02:03:07,840 --> 02:03:10,400
Speaker 1: heavy lifting for you. Now offer them something I'll give

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02:03:10,440 --> 02:03:13,560
Speaker 1: you worth their while, fifth, sixth, seventh rounder, whatever you

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02:03:13,600 --> 02:03:16,560
Speaker 1: can get. What do you think? I'm just thinking if

2182
02:03:16,640 --> 02:03:19,920
Speaker 1: you maybe the going rate was a fifth for him,

2183
02:03:20,680 --> 02:03:24,000
Speaker 1: but now that he costs you less, to offer a four,

2184
02:03:24,720 --> 02:03:26,640
Speaker 1: or you know, they can turn into a conditional three

2185
02:03:26,720 --> 02:03:28,440
Speaker 1: if he starts ten games for you. You know that

2186
02:03:28,560 --> 02:03:30,480
Speaker 1: kind of thing. I wonder if you get creative there,

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02:03:30,560 --> 02:03:34,200
Speaker 1: give me some possibilities. I'm thinking what New Orleans Jamis

2188
02:03:34,240 --> 02:03:36,600
Speaker 1: Winston and Marcus Mariot are the two guys that were

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02:03:36,680 --> 02:03:40,120
Speaker 1: picked one and two. That would be funny. They have

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Speaker 1: they still have tasted Hill under contractorked his deal and

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02:03:44,280 --> 02:03:47,280
Speaker 1: Jamis Winston. Yeah, I think they're good with those two,

2192
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Speaker 1: and they're tight on the cap. But three and a

2193
02:03:48,680 --> 02:03:52,160
Speaker 1: half million dollars as a bargain um. There might be

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02:03:52,240 --> 02:03:56,080
Speaker 1: some teams out there that could be at least prompted

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02:03:56,120 --> 02:04:01,840
Speaker 1: to pick up the phone. You know who would it be? Carolina? Maybe?

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02:04:02,360 --> 02:04:06,480
Speaker 1: Maybe Carolina? Maybe New England If they can't get Garoppolo

2197
02:04:07,080 --> 02:04:11,280
Speaker 1: to bring Mariota in there as a second guy starts,

2198
02:04:11,640 --> 02:04:13,240
Speaker 1: they could get as much out of Mariota as they

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02:04:13,280 --> 02:04:17,160
Speaker 1: got out of Cam Newton. They'd win six games with Mariota, right, Yeah,

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02:04:18,200 --> 02:04:23,520
Speaker 1: I mean Chicago has Andy Dalton now, but kick Nick

2201
02:04:23,560 --> 02:04:27,080
Speaker 1: Foles to the curb, I mean, save his money. There.

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Speaker 1: There might be somebody out there willing to at least

2203
02:04:29,480 --> 02:04:31,280
Speaker 1: make a phone call, and the Raiders might be like, hey, look,

2204
02:04:31,320 --> 02:04:34,560
Speaker 1: we're all set here. No interest maybe, but but you know,

2205
02:04:34,680 --> 02:04:36,320
Speaker 1: you get you get offered a four where it can

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02:04:36,480 --> 02:04:40,600
Speaker 1: that can turn into a conditional three. It might do it,

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02:04:40,960 --> 02:04:42,520
Speaker 1: you know, it depends on someone will pick up the

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02:04:42,520 --> 02:04:46,879
Speaker 1: phone and at least call. Yeah, Kareem Jackson a safety

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02:04:47,120 --> 02:04:50,160
Speaker 1: resigning with Denver, so he goes back there and their

2210
02:04:50,200 --> 02:04:53,400
Speaker 1: secondary's looking pretty good, even though they released a couple

2211
02:04:53,440 --> 02:04:57,120
Speaker 1: of people. Uh. There are reported reported terms on the

2212
02:04:57,240 --> 02:05:01,760
Speaker 1: Mackenzie deal. This, according to Ian Rappaport, one year, one

2213
02:05:01,840 --> 02:05:06,920
Speaker 1: point one five million, three hundred and fifty fully guaranteed.

2214
02:05:07,720 --> 02:05:10,280
Speaker 1: So a modest deal, but this is where the market

2215
02:05:10,360 --> 02:05:12,560
Speaker 1: is going quickly. Well, he was, he was under a

2216
02:05:12,600 --> 02:05:14,440
Speaker 1: million last year, so it's a it's a you know,

2217
02:05:14,600 --> 02:05:18,600
Speaker 1: percentage raise, probably maybe a fifteen twenty percent raise on

2218
02:05:18,760 --> 02:05:22,680
Speaker 1: what he had last year and coming back to Buffalo

2219
02:05:23,640 --> 02:05:27,040
Speaker 1: maybe with an expanded role. Yeah. So those are some

2220
02:05:27,160 --> 02:05:29,640
Speaker 1: news and notes going on around the NFL. But it

2221
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Speaker 1: is time for NFL True Fall Steve, which, as you know,

2222
02:05:33,560 --> 02:05:38,080
Speaker 1: is brought to you by Yancey's Fancy New York's Artisan Cheese.

2223
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Speaker 1: And we begin in the Big Apple, or at least

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02:05:43,560 --> 02:05:46,760
Speaker 1: just over the bridge in New Jersey. As we ask,

2225
02:05:47,640 --> 02:05:51,960
Speaker 1: did the Jets have a better free agency haul than

2226
02:05:52,040 --> 02:05:55,040
Speaker 1: the Giants? Giants with some late acquisitions here in the

2227
02:05:55,160 --> 02:05:58,440
Speaker 1: last few days, did the Jets have a better free

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02:05:58,480 --> 02:06:01,560
Speaker 1: agency haul and the Giants? And I will run down

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Speaker 1: the lists for you. Okay, so here's who the Jets

2230
02:06:04,960 --> 02:06:10,240
Speaker 1: have added. Linebacker Gerard Davis from Detroit, wide receiver Corey

2231
02:06:10,320 --> 02:06:15,680
Speaker 1: Davis from Tennessee, Carl Lawson wide receiver Keelan Cole from Jacksonville,

2232
02:06:15,720 --> 02:06:18,880
Speaker 1: safety LaMarcus Joiner from the Raiders, center Dan Feeney from

2233
02:06:18,880 --> 02:06:22,520
Speaker 1: the Chargers, defensive tackle Sheldon Rankins from New Orleans, Tyler

2234
02:06:22,560 --> 02:06:26,120
Speaker 1: Croft from Buffalo, and defensive back Justin Hardy, a special

2235
02:06:26,200 --> 02:06:31,160
Speaker 1: teams demon from New Orleans. Meanwhile, the Giants have added

2236
02:06:31,240 --> 02:06:34,320
Speaker 1: running back de Vante Booker, wide receiver John Ross, fullback

2237
02:06:34,360 --> 02:06:38,800
Speaker 1: Hellen Galaspia, defensive end if Aati odenigue Bow tight end,

2238
02:06:38,880 --> 02:06:42,320
Speaker 1: Kyle Rudolph, quarterback Mike Glennon, linebacker Reggie Raglan, wide receiver,

2239
02:06:42,400 --> 02:06:45,920
Speaker 1: Kenny Galladay cornerback of Dory Jackson. Let's say you're Steve

2240
02:06:46,320 --> 02:06:48,480
Speaker 1: like Carl Lawson a lot, and I like Kenny Galladay.

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02:06:49,680 --> 02:06:54,920
Speaker 1: Corey Davis can play. I'll say the it's close New

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02:06:55,400 --> 02:07:01,880
Speaker 1: York Football Jet. Ah, He's going with the jet because

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02:07:01,960 --> 02:07:04,240
Speaker 1: I like, I like the guy. They got a you know,

2244
02:07:04,360 --> 02:07:07,520
Speaker 1: offensive lineman, they got a defensive tackle, a defensive end,

2245
02:07:07,600 --> 02:07:14,240
Speaker 1: a guard, another guard. Uh. Yeah, they got some. Yeah,

2246
02:07:14,280 --> 02:07:16,320
Speaker 1: they got they got a bunch of guys. Joe Douglas

2247
02:07:16,440 --> 02:07:18,560
Speaker 1: has made some decent moves here. I will give him

2248
02:07:20,640 --> 02:07:25,920
Speaker 1: Keelan Cole and Corey Davis. Well, they lost Breshad Perryman

2249
02:07:26,080 --> 02:07:28,120
Speaker 1: to the Lions. He went and signed with Detroit where

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Speaker 1: his dad played. Oh that's right, okay, I got you

2251
02:07:31,080 --> 02:07:34,160
Speaker 1: and they lost. Yeah, okay, so I'm I'm just yeah.

2252
02:07:34,200 --> 02:07:39,000
Speaker 1: I think they they certainly addressed some positional needs and

2253
02:07:39,080 --> 02:07:42,120
Speaker 1: that's what you're supposed to do, especially on their defensive front.

2254
02:07:42,320 --> 02:07:46,880
Speaker 1: They lost Pat Elflyn. Yeah, he's right, not that great anyway. Um,

2255
02:07:47,840 --> 02:07:50,880
Speaker 1: the Giants did some good things too, but I would

2256
02:07:50,920 --> 02:07:57,920
Speaker 1: say after Gala Day Jackson and Rudolph, the acquisitions by

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02:07:57,960 --> 02:08:03,680
Speaker 1: the Giants are largely middle to lower tier. And if

2258
02:08:03,720 --> 02:08:08,600
Speaker 1: you look at the Jets, Carl Lawson his upper tier,

2259
02:08:09,320 --> 02:08:13,640
Speaker 1: Corey Davis his upper middle tier, Keeling Cole middle tier,

2260
02:08:13,800 --> 02:08:19,880
Speaker 1: Gerard Davis middle tier, Sheldon Rankin's upper tier, it's close. Man.

2261
02:08:21,000 --> 02:08:23,400
Speaker 1: Can I vote for a push here? I was gonna say,

2262
02:08:23,440 --> 02:08:26,320
Speaker 1: I might might flip the coin, but there's a coin flip.

2263
02:08:26,400 --> 02:08:28,720
Speaker 1: So since you said Jets, I will say Giants, and

2264
02:08:28,760 --> 02:08:31,240
Speaker 1: I will say false. It's very close because and I'll

2265
02:08:31,240 --> 02:08:35,160
Speaker 1: say this too, um unlike well, I don't know, unlike it.

2266
02:08:35,360 --> 02:08:38,120
Speaker 1: But you know, the Jets are always the guys that

2267
02:08:38,440 --> 02:08:40,440
Speaker 1: spend big money on one. You know, they get the

2268
02:08:40,760 --> 02:08:46,320
Speaker 1: shiny top shelf guy Um Galada falls into that. Yeah, Um,

2269
02:08:52,400 --> 02:08:55,680
Speaker 1: I'll say, I'll say the Jets yeah, uh true false.

2270
02:08:55,800 --> 02:08:59,680
Speaker 1: Number two Patriots throwback approach and free agency should frighten

2271
02:08:59,800 --> 02:09:01,840
Speaker 1: the NFL. And I guess what we're getting at here

2272
02:09:01,920 --> 02:09:06,200
Speaker 1: is the tight end approach with Henry and John who Smith?

2273
02:09:07,720 --> 02:09:12,320
Speaker 1: What do we say about that? No, The one thing

2274
02:09:12,400 --> 02:09:14,680
Speaker 1: it does, and it's a little bit. It's like being

2275
02:09:14,720 --> 02:09:17,800
Speaker 1: a contrarian investor where you're going about you're investing on

2276
02:09:17,880 --> 02:09:24,120
Speaker 1: the reaction of everybody. Everybody's like the Bills spread it

2277
02:09:24,160 --> 02:09:26,600
Speaker 1: out for wide. Everybody's going eleven personnel. You got to

2278
02:09:26,640 --> 02:09:28,280
Speaker 1: throw the football to win in the NFL. And the

2279
02:09:28,320 --> 02:09:30,240
Speaker 1: Patriots are gonna go, Okay, if everybody's gonna do that,

2280
02:09:30,320 --> 02:09:33,120
Speaker 1: they're gonna build their rosters around that kind of philosophy.

2281
02:09:33,200 --> 02:09:36,360
Speaker 1: Let's build our roster to take advantage of where they won't.

2282
02:09:36,480 --> 02:09:40,400
Speaker 1: They will be thin in their roster like the Baltimore

2283
02:09:40,600 --> 02:09:43,160
Speaker 1: Ravens did two years ago with Lamar Jackson. They couldn't

2284
02:09:43,160 --> 02:09:45,920
Speaker 1: throw the football. They ran it every every time and

2285
02:09:46,120 --> 02:09:52,840
Speaker 1: nobody was built with big inside, you know, big heavy

2286
02:09:52,960 --> 02:09:55,320
Speaker 1: people to stop the run. Yeah, it wasn't like the

2287
02:09:55,400 --> 02:09:59,000
Speaker 1: old Washington Redskins with the Hogs and John Riggins and

2288
02:09:59,120 --> 02:10:02,520
Speaker 1: you know, nobody had the personnel to defend an offense

2289
02:10:02,600 --> 02:10:04,800
Speaker 1: like that because they didn't exist. So the Ravens got

2290
02:10:04,840 --> 02:10:09,000
Speaker 1: a lot of mileage out of being built with a

2291
02:10:09,080 --> 02:10:11,520
Speaker 1: different type of roster. They were handful for teams to

2292
02:10:11,640 --> 02:10:14,400
Speaker 1: match up with. I think the Patriots are thinking they

2293
02:10:14,440 --> 02:10:15,960
Speaker 1: can do that a little bit with this two tight

2294
02:10:16,080 --> 02:10:18,320
Speaker 1: end thing with nobody can cover guys that are that

2295
02:10:18,440 --> 02:10:21,120
Speaker 1: big and that fast, at least not two of them. Yeah. Uh,

2296
02:10:21,480 --> 02:10:24,280
Speaker 1: Teams are used to do it with Kittle and Kelsey

2297
02:10:25,000 --> 02:10:27,560
Speaker 1: and Ertz and these guys you know that have guys

2298
02:10:27,600 --> 02:10:30,640
Speaker 1: like that, and even even Johnny Smith and Hunt Hunter Henry.

2299
02:10:31,480 --> 02:10:33,000
Speaker 1: You know, there were teams that good built and maybe

2300
02:10:33,040 --> 02:10:36,000
Speaker 1: stop one of those guys. Nobody will be built to

2301
02:10:36,000 --> 02:10:41,760
Speaker 1: stop two. Um No, I I don't think that's because

2302
02:10:41,840 --> 02:10:44,840
Speaker 1: it's different having Aaron Hernandez and Rob Gronkowski running that

2303
02:10:44,960 --> 02:10:48,160
Speaker 1: offense than it is with John Smith is a pretty

2304
02:10:48,160 --> 02:10:50,280
Speaker 1: special athlete, Yes he is. I mean that's the guy

2305
02:10:50,360 --> 02:10:52,000
Speaker 1: that lined up in the backfield and ran a fifty

2306
02:10:52,040 --> 02:10:55,560
Speaker 1: eight yard run. Yes, he is. He's pretty versatile, he's special.

2307
02:10:55,720 --> 02:10:59,480
Speaker 1: Hunter Henry is above average. I don't know if he's special.

2308
02:10:59,680 --> 02:11:02,560
Speaker 1: Both those guys up to this point of their career

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Speaker 1: are good NFL tight ends, But more important is who's

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Speaker 1: throwing to them. And because of that, I will say

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Speaker 1: false as well. I do agree that Cam Newton can

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Speaker 1: throw to the middle of the field better than you

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Speaker 1: can throw outside. It's kind of got a little bit

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Speaker 1: of Lamar Jackson to his passing game with that respect,

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Speaker 1: and these two tight ends will unquestionably help him, especially

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Speaker 1: knowing that Julian Edelman is a firm question mark for

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty one and it's thirty five years old. These

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Speaker 1: are going to be his two inside people going forward.

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Speaker 1: So I think they will certainly help move the passing

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Speaker 1: game for the Patriots another notch. But I don't think

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Speaker 1: they're going to put him in in range of the

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Speaker 1: Bills in terms of what they can do in the

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Speaker 1: passing game. As we mentioned earlier, Knox and Hollister could

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Speaker 1: come very close to what John and Smith and Hunter

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Speaker 1: Henry can do, and they don't have the three receivers

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Speaker 1: that the Bills have. So yeah, I come close. Certainly

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Speaker 1: it's a philosophy that they're changed, but I don't think

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Speaker 1: and the way this is worded, should they frighten the NFL? No,

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Speaker 1: nobody's frightened. All right, that'll do it for NFL. True false.

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Speaker 1: Brought to you by Nancy's Fancy New York's Artists and

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Speaker 1: Cheese Break for us. But when we come back, it's

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Speaker 1: what have we learned from today's show? Had plenty to

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Speaker 1: learn about that extra replay official upstairs. We'll see where

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Speaker 1: our voting ended up in the Twitter poll when we

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Speaker 1: come back. Here on One Bill's Live, presented by Kalid

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Speaker 1: to Health, it's Buffalo Bills Radio. What have we learned?

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Speaker 1: Brought to you by Skyworks, the official construction equipment rental

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Speaker 1: company of the Buffalo Bills. We learned from one Peter King,

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Speaker 1: who was a guest on the show earlier this hour,

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Speaker 1: that ownership in all likelihood will approve the replay official

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Speaker 1: having a little bit more authority up in the booth

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Speaker 1: to overturn misscalls or noncall. Yeah, it seems like a

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Speaker 1: nice tweak. He got the guy up there already. Just

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Speaker 1: give him a little authorities. Say hey, if you see something.

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Speaker 1: If you see something, say something right, So fix that,

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Speaker 1: fix this, fix that. The question is going to be

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Speaker 1: how much they exercise those rights, and how much authority

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Speaker 1: they're actually given, and what kind of relationship it has

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Speaker 1: to the game clock and the flow of play. Whether

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Speaker 1: this replay official will spot the ball more accurately more

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Speaker 1: often than that one. It's gonna be interesting. But I

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Speaker 1: think he's right. I give it a shot. We all

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Speaker 1: see it. If you're sitting there at home and you

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Speaker 1: see something and they're not gonna it takes us an

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Speaker 1: extra you know, two minutes ninety seconds to get that right.

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Speaker 1: Just let the guy get it right quick. Yeah, I'm

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Speaker 1: all for streamlining. It'll be an interesting one year experiment

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Speaker 1: for sure. Tom and Lackawanna, Sorry we ran out of time,

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Speaker 1: couldn't get back to you. Call is back another time.

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Speaker 1: We're happy to take your call. Steve and I back tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: It'll be a hump Day edition and we'll be here

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Speaker 1: to take you through it. Thanks for listening and watching.

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Speaker 1: We'll catch you tomorrow. We be